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The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has appointed Professor Takyiwaa Manuh as a Senior Fellow, effective August 1, 2022.

Prof. Manuh is an Emerita Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana. She previously served as Director at the Social Development Policy Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, where she was also Director of the Institute of African Studies between 2002 and 2009.

Two faculty members of the Institute of African Studies (IAS), Drs. Benjamin Kwansa (immediate past Coordinator of IAS-UGRC) and Aristedes Hargoe (Ag. Artistic Director, Ghana Dance Ensemble) have won awards to embark on fellowships to the United States.

Prof. Dzodzi Akuyo Tsikata, Professor of Development Sociology and Director, Institute of African Studies (IAS), has posed a question on how the state in Ghana is experienced by citizens, and how its acts of commission and omission affect class, gender and spatial differences in Ghana.  She made these remarks at her inaugural lecture on the topic: “The Road Has Many Stories: Encounters between the State and Citizens of the Different Ghanas”.

Professor Amina Mama

The fourth and first woman occupant of the Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies, Professor Amina Mama, has been officially installed at a ceremony chaired by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo at the Great Hall, University of Ghana.