Seth is a very well-known African scholar on indigenous psychology. In addition to his role at UB as a Professor, he serves as a Research Associate at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He was an international visiting research scholar to North Carolina State University, Raleigh, and a Carnegie Scholar at University of Ghana. He has served as an external thesis examiner for UCT, UKZN, UNISA, Rhodes University, and University of Cape Coast (UCC) as well as a promotion assessor for University of Ghana and UCC. He is a member of the African Union CESA-ECED Knowledge Generation Core Working Group, AfECN Regional Research Technical Team, and Advisory Board member of Mindfully LLC as well as Early Childhood Network-Ghana. He has proposed the following: 1) Psychological Theoretics, 2) model of valued human cognitive abilities, 3) risk chain process model, 4) integrated model of human actions and conditions, 5) epistemological allyship, and 6) bio-cultural theory of becoming a person. He has also co-authored a practical resource on how to enhance cultural relevance of early childhood development interventions in Africa. He created the Characterological Interpersonal Coping Styles Diagnostics. He is best known for his work on history, critical, cultural, and indigenous/African psychology; epistemological violence; Anton W. Amo; and decolonising early child development in Africa. Email addresses: Oppongs@ub.ac.bw; Seth.Oppong@wits.ac.za
He is open to thesis supervision and examination in the following areas: