Traducture in Philanthropy
In this interview, Wangui wa Goro, is a feminist, translator, and academic who has both researched and worked in the world of “development”. She provides an innovative perspective on the translatabili…
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Professor of African and Gender Studies · Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
adomako@gmail.comAkosua Adomako Ampofo is Professor of African and Gender Studies at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana (UG). She was the founding Director of the University of Ghana's Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (2005) and Director of the Institute of African Studies (2010–2015). She is the immediate past President of the African Studies Association of Africa, an Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham's Centre for African Studies, a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 2023–2024 Wangari Maathai Visiting Professor at the University of Kassel. She is Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Journal of African Studies and Co-Editor of the Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa (CIHA) blog. An activist scholar, her research covers African knowledge systems, higher education, race and identity politics, gender relations, masculinities and popular culture. Her most recent co-edited book is Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge: Positionalities and Discourses in the Global South (Emerald Publishing, 2021).
In this interview, Wangui wa Goro, is a feminist, translator, and academic who has both researched and worked in the world of “development”. She provides an innovative perspective on the translatabili…
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