Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Josephine Akosua Adomako Ampofo is a professor of Gender Studies and African Studies at the University of Ghana.Biography
Ampofo's mother is German and her father is Ghanaian and Asante. Her father's family come from the CPP tradition. Ampofo earned her bachelor's degree at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, where she studied architectural design. She earned her master's degree at the same university in development planning and management. Ampofo earned her PhD in sociology from Vanderbilit University.
Ampofo started teaching at the University of Ghana in 1989. During 1994 and 1995, Ampofo was a Junior Fulbright Scholar. In 2005, became the first Head of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy at UG, which she held until 2009. Around 2008, she became an editor for Ghana Studies, working on that journal until 2013. She has also been the editor of the Contemporary Journal of African Studies.
She was a Mellon Fellow in 2014 at the University of Cape Town, where she worked in the Centre for African Studies. In 2015, she worked as a Senior Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Concordia University Irvine.
In 2019, as president of the African Studies Association of Africa, she presided over the first conference held in East Africa. Ampofo was a founding member of the ASAA which formed in 2013.
