Profile
I am a lecturer and gender historian affiliated with the Department of History, Political Science, and Public Administration at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. I hold an MPhil and a PhD in Historical Studies from the University of Cape Coast and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, respectively. My PhD research focuses on the gender question in Social Movements in Africa through the lens of women’s contribution to student activism. I am an interdisciplinary researcher who employs methods from history, gender studies, and ethnography. My research interest is focused on women’s leadership in higher education institutions, student activism, women and gender-based violence, religious activism, decolonisation studies, and women and environmental protection. I am also a postdoctoral researcher on the DANIDA-sponsored project Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana (MUWUG). I was one of the three recipients of the 2025 Samora and Graca Machel Africa Studies Association Presidential Fellowship. I was also a Bodleian Library sub-Saharan African visiting fellow at the University of Oxford. I won the 2025 African Peacebuilding Network Individual Research Fellowship (IRF) from the SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Development Dynamics (APDD), where I was researching how the gender roles of women as fish mothers generate conflict within fishing communities. I was a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Fellow at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (June-September 2024). I conducted the postdoctoral research project Decolonization and Student Activism in the Post-Colonial African University: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Critical Voices (Oct 2022-Sep 2023), funded by a Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana and was also part of a Feminist Africa Research Consortium on religious digital activism in Africa (2022-2025). I also participated in the British Academy-funded project on “Old Parks, New Futures: Documenting the Uses of Open Spaces in an African City.
