History of Africa
In 1949, Fage took a post at the new University College of the Gold Coast in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) in West Africa which was affiliated to the University of London. Rising through the academic hierarchy, he published "Introduction to the History of West Africa" (1955, later re-published as "A History of West Africa") and "Atlas of African History" (1958) and "A Short History of Africa" (1962). After Ghana's independence, Fage became Deputy Principal of the then-University College of Ghana and helped to establish the Institute of African Studies at Legon. It was said: