On May 27, 2025, Prof. Carola Lentz, through Dr. George Gyader, donated 24 assorted books to the SDD-UBIDS Library. The Acting Librarian, Mr Bangleman Konlan, presented the books to Vice-Chancellor Prof. Emmanuel K. Derbile at the Office of the Vice-Chancellor.  Professor Derbile expressed gratitude for the kind gesture and encouraged their effective use. Present at the event were: the Pro Vice-Chancellor Prof. Issaka Kanton Osumanu, Registrar, Mr. Job Asante, and the Ag. Director of Finance, Dr. Ngmenpuo Iddrisu Mohammed. This donation marks the beginning of more contributions to enhance the University’s academic resources, were her joy through Dr Gyader.

Prof. (Dr.) Carola Lentz is a social anthropologist and senior research professor at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. Since the late 1980s, her research has focused on West Africa with some specific focus on Ghana and Burkina Faso and she is particularly interested in land rights, ethnicity and nationalism, colonialism, the politics of memory, and the emergence of a middle class. She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. From 2020 to 2024, she served as the President of the Goethe-Institut. She has been a distinct Scholar with a keen interest and insight on the Upper West Region of Ghana since the late 1980s.

Dr. George Gyader, the SDD-UBIDS partner, is a Senior Lecturer and a member of the History and Political Science Department of the Faculty of Social Science and Arts at the Simon Diedong University of Business Integrated Deevelopment Studies (SDD-UBIDS), Wa Upper West Region, Ghana. George got acquainted with Prof. Carola Lentz through his parents (the late Sir. Dr. Edward and Mrs. Prudence Gyader) earlier in life when Prof. Carola used to visit the Upper West Region of Ghana for her research and has been in touch with her ever since then. Prof. Carola in a recent visit to Ghana for the funeral of Sir. Dr. Gyader expressed the desire and intention through Dr. Gyader to donate some books to the SDD-UBIDS Library at the height of her scholarship and academic career. George Collaborated with Prof. Carola Lentz and the University Librarian Mr. Banleman Konlan to facilitate the process of the donation thereof.