Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Biographic Data
| ID | 103166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akosua Adomako Ampofo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akosua Adomako |
| FAMILY NAME | Ampofo |
| SIGNATURE | AMPOFO A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The most extensive reform ever made in the private law of Ghana: A political history of the 1985 Intestate Succession Law
Ghana's 1985 Intestate Succession Law (PNDC Law 111) is a notable example of attempts by postcolonial African states to introduce new forms of protection for widows and children in cases of death ‘intestate' (that is, when the deceased person had not made a valid will). Whilst some legal scholars depicted Law 111 as a radical departure from customary laws pertaining to marriage and property, feminist scholars have been more sceptical, pointing to…
I Shall Live and not Perish: Revisiting Revise and Resubmit
Edited and Approved by Women for Maximum Benefit of all Readers’: Newsprint Journalism, the International Women's Year and the Remaking of a Gendered National Public in 1970s Ghana
During the International Women's Year (IWY) of 1975, United Nations bodies made concerted efforts to ensure global awareness and understanding of the IWY aims of equality, peace and development, via the mass media. In this article, we engage with these strategies of global information distribution from the vantage point of Ghana, West Africa. Drawing from interviews with women journalists and examples from the women's pages of the national state‐…
Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge: Positionalities and Discourses in the Global South
The house that Africa built
It's a privilege and an honor to have been invited to be a part of this conversation, a conversation that is, and has been, going on in different sites and among different groups since human beings
Re-viewing Studies on Africa, #Black Lives Matter, and Envisioning the Future of African Studies
This article considers what African Studies needs to look like in order for it to retain its disciplinary relevance for the next generation and in the larger context of the Black Lives movement globally. It asks questions about where we have come from in terms of race consciousness in our discipline and why this issue matters today. It begins by tracing the development of African Studies' epistemic journey, and follows this with an examination of…
Expressions of Masculinity and Femininity in Husbands' Care of Wives with Cancer in Accra
This article explores the care that husbands in Accra, Ghana, provide for wives who have been diagnosed with cancer. Making use of an inductive, qualitative approach, the study analyzes observations of and in-depth ethnographic interviews conducted with five married female cancer patients and their husbands over a ten-month period. The results suggest a strong association among husbands' care, wives' responses to husbands' care, and cultural idea…
Feminisms and Acculturation around the Globe
Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Provides an interdisciplinary collection of original feminist research on women's lives in Africa and the African diaspora. Demonstrating the power and value of transcontinental connections and exchanges between feminist thinkers, this collection of fifteen essays addresses the need for global perspectives on gender, ethnicity, race and class. Core themes of the book include the evolution of black feminism; black feminist political leadership; th…
In Memory of Professor Ivor Wilks
In November 2014 I had the privilege of being “emcee” for a memorial event to honor Professor Ivor G. Wilks. The event was organized by the Ghana Studies Association (GSA), a cognate body of the African Studies Association. The event took place during the annual meetings held in Indianapolis (
Changing representations of women in Ghanaian popular music: Marrying research and advocacy
This article maps the multiple methods used to bring scholar-activists, music producers and music consumers together in a conversation that culminated in the creation of three winning 'empowering songs' from the 'Changing representations of women in popular music' project. This project explores the gendered stereotypes of women in popular music, and seeks to contribute to reflection on, and creation of, alternative (empowering) narratives about w…
Collective Activism: The Domestic Violence Bill becoming Law in Ghana
This article reflects on contemporary struggles for citizenship rights through an examination of civil society's advocacy for the passage of domestic violence legislation in Ghana. The National Coalition on Domestic Violence Legislation, established in 2003 specifically to push for the passage of the legislation, at various times worked closely with, and at other times independently of, or even in conflict with, the state. These processes and eng…
Researching African Women and Gender Studies: New Social Science Perspectives
Research on African women and gender studies has grown substantially to a position where African-centered gender theories and praxis contribute to theorizing on global feminist scholarship. Africanist scholars in this field have explored new areas such as transnational and multiracial feminisms, both of which address the complex and interlocking conditions that impact women's lives and produce oppression, opportunity and privilege. In addition, e…
Women's and Gender Studies in English-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Research in the Social Sciences
This article seeks to broaden understanding of issues and controversies addressed in social science research on women's and gender studies by researchers and activists based in English-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. The topics covered were selected from those ratified by African women in the Africa Platform for Action in 1995 as well as from current debates on the politics of identity. The common feminist issues the authors identified were health; …
The Sex Trade, Globalisation and Issues of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa
The process of globalisation, that is the extensive political and economic restructuring that is taking place in the world in which national boundaries no longer limit the activities of institutions, involves large movements of wealth, but also of people, across the globe. The pace of this process
Does Women’s Education Matter in Childbearing Decision Making: A Case Study from Urban Ghana
Ghana was the first sub-Saharan country to sign the World Leaders Declaration on Population in 1967 and to formulate a population policy in 1969. A major long-term objective of the policy was to reduce the population growth rate from nearly 3% in 1969 to 1.7% by the year 2000.[2][1] Large families
"When Men Speak Women Listen": Gender Socialisation and Young Adolescents' Attitudes to Sexual and Reproductive Issues
This paper discusses findings from separate focus group discussions among boys, girls, and parents in two communities in Ghana on the kinds of attitudes expressed with regard to specific gender roles and sexual and reproductive behaviour. The FGDs also point to some of the ways adolescents recognise sex role disparities in their own socialisation and that of other young people. The two communities reflect two lineage types, one matrilineal and th…
The Sex Trade, Globalisation and Issues of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa
The process of globalisation, that is the extensive political and economic restructuring that is taking place in the world in which national boundaries no longer limit the activities of institutions, involves large movements of wealth, but also of people, across the globe. The pace of this process is largely being set by Supranational corporations and international financial institutions, as well as organized crime syndicates, most of whom have m…
Controlling and punishing women: Violence against Ghanaian women
(1993). Controlling and punishing women: violence against Ghanaian women. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 20, No. 56, pp. 102-111
Women's and Gender Studies in English-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Research in the Social Sciences
This article seeks to broaden understanding of issues and controversies addressed in social science research on women's and gender studies by researchers and activists based in English-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. The topics covered were selected from those ratified by African women in the Africa Platform for Action in 1995 as well as from current debates on the politics of identity. The common feminist issues the authors identified were health; …
Re-viewing Studies on Africa, #Black Lives Matter, and Envisioning the Future of African Studies
This article considers what African Studies needs to look like in order for it to retain its disciplinary relevance for the next generation and in the larger context of the Black Lives movement globally. It asks questions about where we have come from in terms of race consciousness in our discipline and why this issue matters today. It begins by tracing the development of African Studies' epistemic journey, and follows this with an examination of…
Collective Activism: The Domestic Violence Bill becoming Law in Ghana
This article reflects on contemporary struggles for citizenship rights through an examination of civil society's advocacy for the passage of domestic violence legislation in Ghana. The National Coalition on Domestic Violence Legislation, established in 2003 specifically to push for the passage of the legislation, at various times worked closely with, and at other times independently of, or even in conflict with, the state. These processes and eng…
Controlling and punishing women: Violence against Ghanaian women
(1993). Controlling and punishing women: violence against Ghanaian women. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 20, No. 56, pp. 102-111
Researching African Women and Gender Studies: New Social Science Perspectives
Research on African women and gender studies has grown substantially to a position where African-centered gender theories and praxis contribute to theorizing on global feminist scholarship. Africanist scholars in this field have explored new areas such as transnational and multiracial feminisms, both of which address the complex and interlocking conditions that impact women's lives and produce oppression, opportunity and privilege. In addition, e…
Expressions of Masculinity and Femininity in Husbands' Care of Wives with Cancer in Accra
This article explores the care that husbands in Accra, Ghana, provide for wives who have been diagnosed with cancer. Making use of an inductive, qualitative approach, the study analyzes observations of and in-depth ethnographic interviews conducted with five married female cancer patients and their husbands over a ten-month period. The results suggest a strong association among husbands' care, wives' responses to husbands' care, and cultural idea…
Changing representations of women in Ghanaian popular music: Marrying research and advocacy
This article maps the multiple methods used to bring scholar-activists, music producers and music consumers together in a conversation that culminated in the creation of three winning 'empowering songs' from the 'Changing representations of women in popular music' project. This project explores the gendered stereotypes of women in popular music, and seeks to contribute to reflection on, and creation of, alternative (empowering) narratives about w…
The Sex Trade, Globalisation and Issues of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa
The process of globalisation, that is the extensive political and economic restructuring that is taking place in the world in which national boundaries no longer limit the activities of institutions, involves large movements of wealth, but also of people, across the globe. The pace of this process is largely being set by Supranational corporations and international financial institutions, as well as organized crime syndicates, most of whom have m…
Does Women’s Education Matter in Childbearing Decision Making: A Case Study from Urban Ghana
Ghana was the first sub-Saharan country to sign the World Leaders Declaration on Population in 1967 and to formulate a population policy in 1969. A major long-term objective of the policy was to reduce the population growth rate from nearly 3% in 1969 to 1.7% by the year 2000.[2][1] Large families
I Shall Live and not Perish: Revisiting Revise and Resubmit
Controlling and punishing women: Violence against Ghanaian women
(1993). Controlling and punishing women: violence against Ghanaian women. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 20, No. 56, pp. 102-111
"When Men Speak Women Listen": Gender Socialisation and Young Adolescents' Attitudes to Sexual and Reproductive Issues
This paper discusses findings from separate focus group discussions among boys, girls, and parents in two communities in Ghana on the kinds of attitudes expressed with regard to specific gender roles and sexual and reproductive behaviour. The FGDs also point to some of the ways adolescents recognise sex role disparities in their own socialisation and that of other young people. The two communities reflect two lineage types, one matrilineal and th…
The Sex Trade, Globalisation and Issues of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa
The process of globalisation, that is the extensive political and economic restructuring that is taking place in the world in which national boundaries no longer limit the activities of institutions, involves large movements of wealth, but also of people, across the globe. The pace of this process is largely being set by Supranational corporations and international financial institutions, as well as organized crime syndicates, most of whom have m…
Does Women’s Education Matter in Childbearing Decision Making: A Case Study from Urban Ghana
Ghana was the first sub-Saharan country to sign the World Leaders Declaration on Population in 1967 and to formulate a population policy in 1969. A major long-term objective of the policy was to reduce the population growth rate from nearly 3% in 1969 to 1.7% by the year 2000.[2][1] Large families
The Sex Trade, Globalisation and Issues of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa
The process of globalisation, that is the extensive political and economic restructuring that is taking place in the world in which national boundaries no longer limit the activities of institutions, involves large movements of wealth, but also of people, across the globe. The pace of this process
Women's and Gender Studies in English-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Research in the Social Sciences
This article seeks to broaden understanding of issues and controversies addressed in social science research on women's and gender studies by researchers and activists based in English-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. The topics covered were selected from those ratified by African women in the Africa Platform for Action in 1995 as well as from current debates on the politics of identity. The common feminist issues the authors identified were health; …
Collective Activism: The Domestic Violence Bill becoming Law in Ghana
This article reflects on contemporary struggles for citizenship rights through an examination of civil society's advocacy for the passage of domestic violence legislation in Ghana. The National Coalition on Domestic Violence Legislation, established in 2003 specifically to push for the passage of the legislation, at various times worked closely with, and at other times independently of, or even in conflict with, the state. These processes and eng…
Researching African Women and Gender Studies: New Social Science Perspectives
Research on African women and gender studies has grown substantially to a position where African-centered gender theories and praxis contribute to theorizing on global feminist scholarship. Africanist scholars in this field have explored new areas such as transnational and multiracial feminisms, both of which address the complex and interlocking conditions that impact women's lives and produce oppression, opportunity and privilege. In addition, e…
Changing representations of women in Ghanaian popular music: Marrying research and advocacy
This article maps the multiple methods used to bring scholar-activists, music producers and music consumers together in a conversation that culminated in the creation of three winning 'empowering songs' from the 'Changing representations of women in popular music' project. This project explores the gendered stereotypes of women in popular music, and seeks to contribute to reflection on, and creation of, alternative (empowering) narratives about w…
Feminisms and Acculturation around the Globe
Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Provides an interdisciplinary collection of original feminist research on women's lives in Africa and the African diaspora. Demonstrating the power and value of transcontinental connections and exchanges between feminist thinkers, this collection of fifteen essays addresses the need for global perspectives on gender, ethnicity, race and class. Core themes of the book include the evolution of black feminism; black feminist political leadership; th…
In Memory of Professor Ivor Wilks
In November 2014 I had the privilege of being “emcee” for a memorial event to honor Professor Ivor G. Wilks. The event was organized by the Ghana Studies Association (GSA), a cognate body of the African Studies Association. The event took place during the annual meetings held in Indianapolis (
Re-viewing Studies on Africa, #Black Lives Matter, and Envisioning the Future of African Studies
This article considers what African Studies needs to look like in order for it to retain its disciplinary relevance for the next generation and in the larger context of the Black Lives movement globally. It asks questions about where we have come from in terms of race consciousness in our discipline and why this issue matters today. It begins by tracing the development of African Studies' epistemic journey, and follows this with an examination of…
Expressions of Masculinity and Femininity in Husbands' Care of Wives with Cancer in Accra
This article explores the care that husbands in Accra, Ghana, provide for wives who have been diagnosed with cancer. Making use of an inductive, qualitative approach, the study analyzes observations of and in-depth ethnographic interviews conducted with five married female cancer patients and their husbands over a ten-month period. The results suggest a strong association among husbands' care, wives' responses to husbands' care, and cultural idea…
The house that Africa built
It's a privilege and an honor to have been invited to be a part of this conversation, a conversation that is, and has been, going on in different sites and among different groups since human beings
Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge: Positionalities and Discourses in the Global South
Edited and Approved by Women for Maximum Benefit of all Readers’: Newsprint Journalism, the International Women's Year and the Remaking of a Gendered National Public in 1970s Ghana
During the International Women's Year (IWY) of 1975, United Nations bodies made concerted efforts to ensure global awareness and understanding of the IWY aims of equality, peace and development, via the mass media. In this article, we engage with these strategies of global information distribution from the vantage point of Ghana, West Africa. Drawing from interviews with women journalists and examples from the women's pages of the national state‐…
I Shall Live and not Perish: Revisiting Revise and Resubmit
The most extensive reform ever made in the private law of Ghana: A political history of the 1985 Intestate Succession Law
Ghana's 1985 Intestate Succession Law (PNDC Law 111) is a notable example of attempts by postcolonial African states to introduce new forms of protection for widows and children in cases of death ‘intestate' (that is, when the deceased person had not made a valid will). Whilst some legal scholars depicted Law 111 as a radical departure from customary laws pertaining to marriage and property, feminist scholars have been more sceptical, pointing to…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (7 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Context (archaeology (4 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (4 works)