The Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy for Post-COVID-19 Africa (GETSPA) project is set to organise its maiden annual conference from 23 to 25 August 2022 at the ISSER Conference Facility, University of Ghana.
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.
MA/MPhil students in African Studies, Political Science and Sociology
University of Ghana, Legon
Two scholarships for thesis research available for 2023 within Certifications of Citizenship in Africa (CERTIZENS) Research Project
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR CONFERENCE ON
Natural Resource Management and Conflict in Africa
Organized by the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Ghana, and the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark.
Date: 26th to 28th June 2023.
Venue: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen.
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”.
UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
Call for Applications: The Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies
Topic: The Road has Many Stories: Encounters between the State and Citizens of the Different Ghanas.
Date: May 12, 2022
Time: 5:00 pm
Venue: Great Hall, University of Ghana
The Institute of African Studies invites the University community to a two-part commemorative programme in honour of Dr. Edward Nanbigne, Senior Research Fellow and Research Coordinator of the Religions and Philosophy Section of the Institute as follows:
A) Evening of Remembrance
Date: Wednesday, 20th April 2022
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.