West Africa Hub
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The West Africa Hub is based at the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy, University of Ghana.
Convenor: Takyiwaa Manuh
Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA)
University of Ghana
P.O.Box LG 73
Legon, Accra
Ghana
Website: http://cegensa.ug.edu.gh/
Team Members:
Akosua Adomako
Akosua Darkwah
Annabella Opare-Henaku
Dzodzi Tsikata
Ellen Bortei-Doku Aryeetey
Communications Partner:
Rose Mensah-Kutin - ABANTU for Development
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Partners:
Initiative for Women’s Studies in Nigeria
Charmaine Pereira
Irene Pogoson
University of Sierra Leone
Aisha Fofana Ibrahim
Jamesina King
Hussainatu Abdullah (Independent Researcher based in Dakar)
Research
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This research strategy focuses on three Anglophone West African countries (Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone) that share significant cultural commonalities, yet have markedly different contemporary histories. Research will take as its starting point the dissonance between narratives of women’s empowerment that drive international development policy and women’s lived experience in this region.The hub will work with popular culture, policy makers and women themselves to identify and track conceptions of empowerment through policies to beneficiaries, exploring how projects generated by particular conceptions of empowerment play out in practice.
Projects
Inter-Generational Perspectives on Women's Lives and Empowerment (A Pilot Survey Project)
Interrogating Policy Discourses and Practice on Women's Empowerment in Ghana
Women District Assembly Members
Changing Representations of Women in Popular Culture
Expanding the Space for Women's Empowerment in Contemporary Nigeria
Interrogating discourses of Empowerment in Pre and Post-war Sierra Leone
Continuity and Change in the Lives of Ghanaian Marketwomen
Sexuality and Empowerment: The Case of Anita Hogan
Grassroots Politics: The Push for Women's Representation at the Ward Level in Post-War Sierra Leone
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