Foreword

Takyiwaa Manuh is Emerita Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana and an Honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Law from the University of Ghana, Legon, and the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and a PhD in Anthropology from Indiana University, USA. Takyiwaa served as Director at the Social Development Policy Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Ethiopia, and Director of the Institute of African Studies where she was Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana. She is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Senior Fellow at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development, and serves on many boards and committees, including as member of the Scientific Committee of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). She has practiced as a lawyer and is active in movements for gender justice. She has published widely in African development; women’s rights and empowerment; contemporary African migrations, and African higher education systems. She has been awarded significant accolades for such scholarship, service and activism, including an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Sussex, England, in 2015. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4605-2458