Akosua K. Darkwah is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Ghana. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses primarily on the ways in which global economic policies and practices reconfigure women’s work in the Ghanaian context. Her current research explores the implications of the development of cultural policies for women in the creative arts industry. In addition to her life as an academic, Akosua Darkwah devotes time to the cause of women serving as a steering committee member of the Network for Women's Rights, Ghana's leading women's rights organisation. She reviews for Women's Studies International Forum and Gender and Society and has recently joined the African Studies Review's editorial board
