Akosua Keseboa Darkwah

Akosua K. Darkwah is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Ghana and has expertise in qualitative research methods including innovative approaches such as the river of life approach. She is currently one of the editors of the African Studies Review as well as Feminist Africa. She is a member of the International Sociological Association, Sociologists for Women in Society, the African Studies Association (USA), the Ghana Studies Association, and the Ghana Sociological and Anthropological Association. Her research interests centre primarily on Ghanaian women’s work and she investigates both the ways in which global economic policies and practices reconfigure such work in Ghana as well as the ways in which Ghanaian women’s work reverberates on the global stage. For her project as a member of IFG 8, she returns to an earlier research project on Ghanaian market women. She seeks to investigate the contemporary ways in which high politics meets low politics in Ghana’s market. She will explore this question by focusing on the ways in which politicians and officials of the Ghanaian state influence the selection of market queens in Accra.