Prof. Dzodzi Akuyo Tsikata, Professor of Development Sociology and Director, Institute of African Studies (IAS), has posed a question on how the state in Ghana is experienced by citizens, and how its acts of commission and omission affect class, gender and spatial differences in Ghana. She made these remarks at her inaugural lecture on the topic: “The Road Has Many Stories: Encounters between the State and Citizens of the Different Ghanas”.
UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
Call for Applications: The Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies
Topic: The Road has Many Stories: Encounters between the State and Citizens of the Different Ghanas.
Date: May 12, 2022
Time: 5:00 pm
Venue: Great Hall, University of Ghana
The Institute of African Studies invites the University community to a two-part commemorative programme in honour of Dr. Edward Nanbigne, Senior Research Fellow and Research Coordinator of the Religions and Philosophy Section of the Institute as follows:
A) Evening of Remembrance
Date: Wednesday, 20th April 2022
Professor Amina Mama
The fourth and first woman occupant of the Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies, Professor Amina Mama, has been officially installed at a ceremony chaired by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo at the Great Hall, University of Ghana.
The AngloGold Ashanti Lectures on Business in Africa are a collaboration between the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, and AngloGold Ashanti. Instituted in 2008, they highlight issues related to business in Africa as broadly defined. AngloGold Ashanti also support the Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies.
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