Category: About Feminist Africa

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…

Abena Kyere holds a Ph.D in African Studies.  She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy, University of Ghana. Abena’s research interest is broadly in women and religion and women and popular culture. Her research is rooted in understanding the positioning of women in both religion and popular culture and…

Titilope is a PhD Candidate in International Affairs at the University of Ghana, studying gender and activism within the Boko Haram conflict., She is a three-time fellow of the Social Sciences Research Council, specialising in gender, conflict, security, and civil society. Over the past 15 years, she has conducted research and advocacy on these topics…