Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Josephine Akosua Adomako Ampofo is a professor of Gender Studies and African Studies at the University of Ghana.

Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Biography

Ampofo's mother is German and her father is Ghanaian and Asante.[1][2] Her family supported the Nkrumah party and there was tension in the family due to the interracial marriage.[2] Ampofo earned her bachelor's degree at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, where she studied architectural design.[3] She earned her master's degree at the same university in development planning and management.[3] Ampofo earned her PhD in sociology from Vanderbilit University.[3]

Ampofo started teaching at the University of Ghana (UG) in 1989.[1] During 1994 and 1995, Ampofo was a Junior Fulbright Scholar.[1] In 2005, became the first Head of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA) at UG, which she held until 2009.[4] Around 2008, she became an editor for Ghana Studies, working on that journal until 2013.[5] She has also been the editor of the Contemporary Journal of African Studies.[6]

She was a Mellon Fellow in 2014 at the University of Cape Town, where she worked in the Centre for African Studies.[1] In 2015, she worked as a Senior Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Concordia University Irvine.[1]

In 2019, as president of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA), she presided over the first conference held in East Africa.[7] Ampofo was a founding member of the ASAA which formed in 2013.[8][2]

References
  1. Owusu, Eugene Selorm (2019-04-30). "Ghana's Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo to Speak At University of Cambridge". Headline News. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  2. "How to Decolonize Academia. Interview with Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo". From Poverty to Power. 2020-02-14. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  3. "Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo". Institute of African Studies | University of Ghana. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
  4. "Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo – Professor of African and Gender studies – Ghana". Young African Women Congress. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  5. "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.
  6. "Akosua Adomako Ampofo". Feminist Africa. 2019-10-21. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  7. "African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) stages first ever conference in East Africa". The Citizen. 25 October 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  8. "Elizabeth Ohene rekindles debate on who founded Ghana". Ghana News Agency. 12 October 2017. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
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