Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Akosua Adomako Ampofo is Professor of African and Gender Studies at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana (UG). She is the founding Director of UG’s Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy and former Director of the Institute of African Studies at UG (2010–2015). She is the President of the African Studies Association of Africa and honorary Professor at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. She considers herself an activist-scholar; at the heart of her work are questions of identity and power – within families, institutions, political and religious spaces, and the knowledge industry. Among other publications, she is the co-editor of the books (with Josephine Beoku-Betts) Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge: Positionalities and Discourses in the Global South (2020), published by Emerald Publishing and (with Cheryl Rodriguez and Dzodzi Tsikata) Transatlantic Feminisms: Women’s and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora (2015), published by Lexington Books. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Contemporary Journal of African Studies and Co-Editor of the blog Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa.