Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Josephine Akosua Adomako Ampofo is a Ghanaian academic who is a professor of Gender Studies and African Studies at the University of Ghana.[1][2] She is feminist activist-scholar, and a strong advocate for social justice.[3]

Akosua Adomako Ampofo

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Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo at a women development summit in Accra
Personal details
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Academic
  • Development Planner
  • Sociologist
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Early life and education

Ampofo's mother is German and her father is Ghanaian and Asante.[4][5] Her father's family come from the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) tradition.[6] Ampofo attended Aburi Girls' Secondary School.[7] Ampofo earned her bachelor's degree at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, where she studied architectural design.[2] She earned her master's degree at the same university in development planning and management.[2] Ampofo earned her PhD in sociology from Vanderbilt University.[2] Additionally, she holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Spatial Planning from the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany.[8]

Academic career

Ampofo started teaching at the University of Ghana (UG) in 1989.[4] During 1994 and 1995, Ampofo was a Junior Fulbright Scholar.[4] In 2005, became the first Head of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA) at UG, which she held until 2009.[3] Around 2008, she became an editor for Ghana Studies, working on that journal until 2013.[9] She has also been the editor of the Contemporary Journal of African Studies.[10]

She was a Mellon Fellow in 2014 at the University of Cape Town, where she worked in the Centre for African Studies.[4] In 2015, she worked as a Senior Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Concordia University Irvine.[4]

She has in the past consulted for organisations such as UNIFEM,UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO), Save the Children,UNAIDS, Ministry for Gender & Social Protection, Ghana; Participatory Development Associates; Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre and Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre.[8]

Professional association

In 2019, as president of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA), she presided over the first conference held in East Africa.[11] Ampofo was a founding member of the ASAA which formed in 2013.[12][5] She is also a member of the Association and Sociologists for Women and Society, (SWS), African Studies Association,[1] United States, Ghana Domestic Violence Coalition, the Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana,the Council for Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and International Sociological Association, (ISA). She is also a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3][8]

References
  1. "Akosua Adomako Ampofo Bio". African Studies Association Portal - ASA - ASA. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  2. "Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo". Institute of African Studies | University of Ghana. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
  3. "Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo – Professor of African and Gender studies – Ghana". Young African Women Congress. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  4. Owusu, Eugene Selorm (2019-04-30). "Ghana's Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo to Speak At University of Cambridge". Headline News. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  5. "How to Decolonize Academia. Interview with Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo". From Poverty to Power. 2020-02-14. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  6. "How to Decolonize Academia. Interview with Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo". From Poverty to Power. 2020-02-14. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  7. "Akosua Adomako Ampofo". The Conversation. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  8. Ampofo, Akosua Adomako. "AAA CURRICULUM VITAE 2016". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. "Editing Ghana Studies: A Conversation with Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Stephan F. Miescher". Ghana Studies. 21 (1): 86–94. 2018. doi:10.1353/ghs.2018.0006. ISSN 2333-7168 – via Project MUSE.
  10. "Akosua Adomako Ampofo". Feminist Africa. 2019-10-21. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  11. "African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) stages first ever conference in East Africa". The Citizen. 25 October 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  12. "Elizabeth Ohene rekindles debate on who founded Ghana". Ghana News Agency. 12 October 2017. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
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