Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Josephine Akosua Adomako Ampofo masaniya ce a fannin ilimi  'yar Ghana wacce farfesa ce a fannin Nazarin Jinsi da Nazarin Afirka a Jami'ar Ghana.   Ita Malama ce 'yar fafutuka  kuma mai fafutukar kare hakkin jama'a.

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
Mahaifiyar Ampofo Bajamushiya ce kuma mahaifinta ɗan Ghana ne da Asante.   Iyalin mahaifinta sun fito ne daga al'adar Jam'iyyar Convention Peoples Party (CPP).  Ampofo ta halarci makarantar sakandare ta ’yan mata ta Aburi.   Ampofo ta samu digirin farko a Jami’ar Kimiyya da Fasaha ta Kwame Nkrumah, inda ta karanci zanen gine-gine.  Ta yi karatun digiri na biyu a jami'a guda a fannin tsare-tsare da gudanarwa.  Ampofo ta sami digiri na uku a fannin zamantakewa daga Jami'ar Vanderbilt.  Bugu da ƙari, tana riƙe da Difloma ta Difloma a cikin Tsare-tsare  daga Jami'ar Fasaha ta Dortmund, Jamus.

 Aikin ilimi 
Ampofo ta fara koyarwa a Jami'ar Ghana (UG) a shekarar 1989.  A lokacin 1994 da 1995, Ampofo ta kasance Junior Fulbright Scholar.  A cikin shekarar 2005, ta zama Shugaba na farko na Cibiyar Nazarin Ilimin Jinsi da Shawarwari (CEGENSA) a UG, wanda ta riƙe har zuwa 2009.  A kusa da shekarar 2008, ta zama edita na Nazarin Ghana, tana aiki a wannan mujallar har zuwa shekara ta 2013.  Ta kuma kasance editar Jaridar Zamani na Nazarin Afirka. 

Ta kasance Mellon Fellow a cikin shekarar 2014 a Jami'ar Cape Town, inda ta yi aiki a Cibiyar Nazarin Afirka.  A cikin shekarar 2015, ta yi aiki a matsayin Babbar Jami'ar Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence a Jami'ar Concordia Irvine. 

Ta taɓa tuntuɓar kungiyoyi irin su UNIFEM, UNICEF, Hukumar Lafiya ta Duniya (WHO), Save the Children, UNAIDS, Ministry for Gender &amp; Social Protection, Ghana; Abokan Ci gaban Haɓaka; Cibiyar Nazarin Jinsi da Takardun kare  Haƙƙin  Bil Adama da Cibiyar Koyar da Zaman Lafiya ta Duniya Kofi Annan.

 Ƙungiyar kwararru 
A cikin shekarar 2019, a matsayinta na shugabar kungiyar Nazarin Afirka ta Afirka (ASAA), ta jagoranci taron farko da aka yi a Gabashin Afirka.   Ampofo ta kasance memba na ASAA wanda ta kafa a shekarar 2013.    Har ila yau, memba ce na Ƙungiyar  Ƙwararrun Mata da Al'umma, (SWS), Ƙungiyar Nazarin Afirka,  ƙasar Amirka, Ƙungiyar Haɗin Kai ta Gida ta Ghana, Ƙungiyar 'Yancin Mata a Ghana, Majalisar Cibiyar Nazarin Kimiyyar Jama'a a Afirka. (CODESRIA) da Ƙungiyar zamantakewa ta Duniya, (ISA). Ita kuma fellow ce ta Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta Ghana.

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