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In the fulfillment of one arm of the AGI's 'Strengthening Gender Studies for Africa's Transformation' project, that of supporting G/WS teaching on the continent, a Teaching Resources Group (TWG) was convened comprising 12 experienced teaching faculties from G/WS centres in six African countries (Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa).
Faculty of Law, Makerere University, P O Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda
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Takyiwaa Manuh is an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for African Studies, University of Ghana. She was educated at the University of Ghana (Legon), University of Dar es Salaam and Indiana University, Bloomington and holds degrees in Law and Anthropology. She is active in the women's movement in Ghana and is Board Chair of ABANTU for development, and a member of the Steering Committee of NETRIGHT, the coalition for women's rights in Ghana . She is also a member of the International Advisory Committee of the AGI, and a steering committee member of SEPHIS. She has published about 40 articles, book chapters and monographs in journals and books in Ghana and elsewhere.
Institute for African Studies, Box 73, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
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Akosuah is an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. She received her PHD from Vanderbilt University; Nashville, TN
Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
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African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, P/Bag Rondebosch, 7701, Cape Town, South Africa
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Amina Mama has held the position of Chair in Gender Studies, at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town since 1999, where she is responsible for the intellectual leadership of the AGI. This includes the academic programmes from undergraduate to doctoral level. She initiated the AGI's graduate and research programmes in gender studies which she has convened for the last 4 years, and serves as coordinator of the AGI's continental and international projects, including the G/WS Africa programme. Her intellectual interests center around bringing feminist theory to bear on postcolonial subjectivities, social relations, institutions and politics.
She has devoted the last five years to working with colleagues to establish the AGI as a regional resource dedicated to strengthening the teaching and research in the trans-disciplinary field of gender studies in African universities. The production of Feminist Africa and the G/WS Africa website are central to this work.
African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, P/Bag Rondebosch, 7701, Cape Town, South Africa
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Shereen
is a Research Associate and PhD Student at the African Gender Institute.
African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, P/Bag Rondebosch, 7701, Cape Town, South Africa
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Professor Priya Narismulu is based in English at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal and is at present conducting interdisciplinary research, writing and teaching in the areas of race/gender/class intersections, informal settlements and domestic workers, HIV/AIDS prevention, the popular-democratic culture of resistance against apartheid, African poetry, and postcolonialism.
School of Languages, University of Durban Westville, P/Bag X54001, Durban, 4000
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Josephine teaches Women's and Gender Studies at Makerere University, Kampala, in Uganda.
Department of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University, P O Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda
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Dept of Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
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Charmaine is an independent researcher based in Nigeria.
Network for Women's Studies in Nigeria, 75B Mississippi St, Maitama, Abuja, Nigeria
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Dzodzi Tsikata (Ph.D.) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) of the University of Ghana, where she has worked for the last 12 years. Her research interests and writing in the last ten years have been in the areas of gender and livelihoods, land tenure policies and state and society in Ghana. She is the editor of the book "Gender Training in Ghana: Politics, Issues and Tools" (2000). She teaches an M.A. level course Gender Relations and Development in Ghana at ISSER. Dzodzi is the convenor of the Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT). She is also convening the drafting committee of a Women's Manifesto for Ghana.
Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, P O Box LG74, Legon, Ghana
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Mansah Prah is currently an associate professor, sociology, at the university of Cape Coast in Ghana. Originally from Ghana, she went to university in Germany (universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt). She has been a university teacher for 19 years, teaching sociology and gender studies.She has taught in
Lesotho, Austria and the US. In 2000 she became head of the Sociology Dept at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. She became the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences 2003.
She has been appointed William F. Quillian Visiting International Professor at the Randolph Macon Woman's College, in Lynchburg, Virginia for the 2004/2005 academic year.
Dept of Sociology, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast
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University of Botswana, P/Bag UB 00702, Gaborone, Botswana
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Coordinator, Centre for Research and Training in Women and Development(CERTWID), Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
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Intellectual input to the Teaching Working Group was also provided by the following people:
Debbie Budlender is a researcher with the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE). She has been co-ordinator and editor of the South African Women's Budget Initiative since 1995.
http://www.case.org.za/gender.html
Winnie Byanyima is in her third term as an elected legislator in the Parliament of Uganda. She has served as vice-chair of the Public Accounts Committee and is now a member of the Budget Committee and the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament. She is the third Vice-chair of the Reform Agenda, a political pressure group in Uganda active on issues of human rights and democratisation.
Joanne Henry is a Senior Programme Officer at the AGI. Her area of work is around the development, implementation and use of ICTs in educational contexts.
The AGI would like to thank all the members of the Teaching Working Group for their dedication and hard work. We would like to extend thanks as well to Shereen Essof for the discussion reports, as well as the following people for their contributions:
Nana Mettle-Nunoo; Augustine Kimonyo; Shaheena Karbanee; Brenda Martin; Joanne Henry; Hilda Ferguson & Karen Flowers