Takyiwaa Manuh is 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 Ethiopia, and Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana where she was also Director of the Institute of African Studies between 2002 and 2009. She has received several awards and recognitions including the University of Ghana’s Meritorious Service Award in 2007; Ghana’s Order of the Volta (Officer Class) for services to education in 2008; and an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Sussex in 2015. She is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and is also currently a member of the GAAS Council. In addition, she has served as a member of several international, continental, and national organizations and bodies including the Board of the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), the UK; the Board of the Society for International Development (SID; the Scientific Committee of the Association of African Universities (AAU), the Chair of the Scientific Committee of CODESRIA, Dakar; the Governing Board of UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), the Board of the African Gender Institute Board, the Steering Committee of the South-South Exchange Program on the History of Development (SEPHIS), the Steering Committee of NETRIGHT, Chair of ABANTU for Development’s Board, and member of the board of the Media Foundation for West Africa.
Professor Manuh has published widely in the areas of African development; gender, women’s rights, and empowerment; higher education; and contemporary African migrations.
