Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Josephine Akosua Adomako Ampofo is a Ghanaian academic who is a professor of Gender Studies and African Studies at the University of Ghana. Her father's family come from the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) tradition. Ampofo earned her bachelor's degree at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, where she studied architectural design. She earned her master's degree at the same university in development planning and management.

Academic career Ampofo started teaching at the University of Ghana (UG) in 1989. Around 2008, she became an editor for Ghana Studies, working on that journal until 2013. She has also been the editor of the Contemporary Journal of African Studies.

She was a Mellon Fellow in 2014 at the University of Cape Town, where she worked in the Centre for African Studies. Ampofo was a founding member of the ASAA which formed in 2013. She is also a member of the Association and Sociologists for Women and Society, (SWS), African Studies Association, United States, Ghana Domestic Violence Coalition, the Network for Women's Rights in Ghana, the Council for Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and International Sociological Association, (ISA). She is also a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.