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Akosua Keseboa Darkwah

Akosua Keseboa Darkwah
Associate Professor
adarkwah@ug.edu.gh

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DEGREES OBTAINED:

  • PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
  • MSc, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998
  • BA, Vassar College, 1996
     

ACADEMIC SPECIALISATION

  • Development Sociology
  • Labour Studies
  • Gender Studies
     

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • 2016-     Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, UG 2008-2016   Senior Lecturer, Department 
  • of Sociology, UG 2003-2008   Lecturer, Department of Sociology, UG
  • AWARDS:
  • 2021     Best Researcher in the School of Social Sciences, University of Ghana

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Darkwah, A. K & Tsikata, D. (2022). The Changing Conceptions of Work and the Language of Work in 
         Ghana – Towards a Research Agenda. In D.Hill & F. K. Ameka (Eds.), Language, Linguistics and 
         Development Practices (pp. 87-109). Palgrave Macmillan.
Ofori-Dankwa, J., DelVecchio, M., & Darkwah, A. K. (2022). Towards a more comprehensive 
        capital-based framework for explaining the performance of small entrepreneurs: illustrations from 
        the Ghanaian marketplace. In D. (Ed.). Innovation and Behavioural Strategy (pp.109-132). 
        Information Age Publishing.
Darkwah, A. K. (2022). Key workers in Ghana during the COVID-19 pandemic. ILO Working Paper 61. 
      Geneva: International Labour Organisation.
Darkwah, A, K., & Tsikata, D. (2021). Home-based work and homework in Ghana: An exploration. ILO 
      Working Paper 22. Geneva: International Labour Organisation.
Darkwah, A. K. (2021). African women and globalisation. In O. Yacob-Haliso, & T. Falola (Eds.), The 
     Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies (pp. 1805- 1820). Palgrave Macmillan.
Darkwah, A. K., Dako-Gyeke, M., & Nketia-Amponsah, E. (2018). Hedging against vulnerability: 
      Associational life as a social insurance strategy by the poor in the Central Region of Ghana. In N. 
Awortwi & G. Walter-Drop (Eds.), Non-State Social Protection Actors and Services in Africa: 
     Governance below the state (87-103). Routledge.

Darkwah, A. K. (2016). Globalisation, development and the empowerment of women. In
     J. Steans, & D. Tepe-Belfrage (Eds.), Handbook of Gender in International Relations (pp 386-393). 
    Edward Elgar.
Nazneen. S., Darkwah, A. K., & Sultan, M. (2014). Researching Women’s Empowerment: Reflections  on  
     Methodology  by  Southern  Feminists.  Women’s  Studies International Forum, 45 (4), 55-62.
Darkwah, A. K. (2014). Structural gendered inequalities in the Ghanaian economy. In
      D. S. Dzorgbo, & S. Tonah (Eds.), Sociology and Development Issues in Ghana: A Reader in Sociology 
      (pp. 137-151). Woeli Publishing Services.
Tsikata, D., & Darkwah, A. K. (2014). Researching empowerment: On methodological innovations, 
      pitfalls and challenges. Women’s Studies International Forum, 45 (4), 81-89.
Darkwah, A. K. (2013). Keeping hope alive: An analysis of training opportunities for Ghanaian youth 
      in the emerging oil and gas industry. International Development Planning Review, 35 (2), 119-134.
Darkwah, A. K. (2010). Education: pathway to empowerment for Ghanaian women?
     IDS Bulletin, 41 (2), 28-36.
Darkwah, A. K. (2007). Making hay while the sun shines: Ghanaian female traders and their insertion 
    in the global economy. In N. Gunewardena, & A. Kingsolver (Eds.), The Gender of Globalization: 
    Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities (pp. 61-83). James Currey.
Darkwah, A. K. (2007). Work as a duty and as a joy: Understanding the role of work in the lives of 
    Ghanaian female traders of global consumer items. In S. Hurley (Ed.), Women’s Labor in the Global 
    Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices (pp. 206- 220). Rutgers Press.
Darkwah, A. K. (2005). Poverty trends in Ghana over the last fifteen years. Legon Journal of 
    Sociology, 2(1), 81-100.
Darkwah, A. K. (2002). Trading goes global: Ghanaian market women in an era of globalization. Asian 
    Women, 15, 31-49.
Darkwah, A. K. (2001). Confronting the phantom in our midst: Market women negotiate the Ghanaian 
    trade policy framework. Social Policy, 2 (1), 1-7.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

  •  Ghana Sociological and Anthropological Association
  •   African Studies Association, USA
  •   Ghana Studies Association
  •   International Sociological Association
     

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

  • Editor, Feminist Africa (2023-)
  • Associate Editor, Feminist Africa (2020-2023) Editor, African Studies Review (2020-2026)
  • Managing Editor, Ghana Journal of Sociology and Anthropology (2021-2024) Co-editor, Ghana Studies 
  • (2013-2016)
  • Editorial Board Member, Gender and Society (2014-2016)