Category: FA Board

Dorothy Takyiakwaa is a Lecturer in Gender Studies and Urban Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Cape Coast. She is also Researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation, University of Cape Coast. Dorothy has a PhD in Urban Sociology from the University of Cape Coast where her theses…

Belinda Smith is interested in gender issues that concern domestic violence, access to education, girls’ empowerment, and body image. She is especially curious about beauty practices that pursue an ideal of a unified femininity resulting in the cultural homogenization of women’s appearance as well as their lives. In this vein, women are classified according to whether or not they conform to the idealized body within their society….

Edwina Ashie-Nikoi is an archivist and historian of the African Diaspora with particular interest in the ways peoples of African descent choose to document themselves. Among other aspects, her research interrogates the gendered dimensions of how experiences of subjugation and oppression are remembered and represented. Dr. Ashie-Nikoi holds a PhD in History from New York…

Amina Mama is a Nigerian/British feminist researcher, academic & consultant whose professional career spans European, African and U.S. institutions. She has dedicated much of her time to creating institutional spaces for strengthening radical intellectual work, teaching, research and publication, and film. Her major publications include Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity (Routledge 1995), co-edited…

Dzodzi Tsikata is Research Professor and Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana. Her teaching, research and advocacy are in the areas of gender and development policies and practices; the gendered political economy of agrarian change; and informal labour relations and conditions of work. Her publications include the co-edited…

Professor Sylvia Tamale is a leading African feminist and scholar.  She was the first female dean at the School of Law at Makerere University in Uganda.  She founded the Law, Gender and Sexuality Research Centre at the same university.  Prof. Tamale has been a visiting Professor in several academic institutions globally and serves on several…

Akosua Adomako Ampofo is a Professor of African and Gender Studies at the Institute of African Studies, and the Ag. Dean, International Programmes at the University of Ghana (UG).  From 2010-2015 she was the Director of the Institute of African Studies (UG) and was also the foundation Director of UG’s Centre for Gender Studies and…

Hope Chigudu is a feminist activist with decades of experience in feminist movement building and feminist leadership development. Over the years, Hope has honed her skills in organizational development, health and well-being; a philosophy of work/life balance enunciated in her book: Strategies for Building Organizations with a Soul. It is a manual that offers a…

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…

Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) and the Programme Officer on the Feminist Africa Project at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. She also teaches Gender courses at the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA), Institute of African Studies (IAS) and…