Ama has been used in an academic environment by:

Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong at Harvard in his course on Slavery and the Slave
Trade in Africa and the Americas
<http://icg.harvard.edu/~hsb52/syllabus/Syllabus_HSB52.pdf >

Prof. Kenneth Wilburn at the University of East Carolina in courses on
Imperialism in Theory and Practice and the History of Africa
www.core.ecu.edu/hist/wilburnk/Imperialism/syl-imp.htm and
www.core.ecu.edu/hist/wilburnk/Africa/j-ah.htm

Prof. Heidi Gengenbach in her Boston University CAS Writing Program Seminar
in World Literature: WR100 FD Stories of the Atlantic Slave Trade ("Key
texts include Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olauda Equiano, Fred D’Aquiar’s Feeding the Ghosts, Manu Herbstein’s Ama: A
Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage, and
Robert Hams’ The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade")
http://www.bu.edu/cas/writing/docs/CourseDescriptionsF04.pdf

Prof. Martin Klein, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of History at Carleton College, will use Ama in a Winter 2004-5 Research Seminar, HIST 395: Comparative Slavery (“. . . will review some of the literature on slavery and the slave trade and will center on two narratives . . . The second is a novel that traces the history of a young girl from her enslavement in northern Ghana to Brazil.”) http://webapps.acs.carleton.edu/curricular/history/coursesyllabi/h39503200405