January 2024

Akosua K. Darkwah is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Ghana and has expertise in qualitative research methods including innovative approaches such as the river of life approach. She is currently one of the editors of the African Studies Review as well as Feminist Africa. She is a member of the International Sociological Association, Sociologists for Women in Society, the African Studies Association (USA), the Ghana Studies Association, and the Ghana Sociological and Anthropological Association.

Stephen O. Kwankye is an Associate Professor of the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), College of Humanities, at the University of Ghana, Legon. He is a Demographer and Population Scientist by training and holds PhD in Population Studies with specialisation in adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Between 2011 and 2014, he worked on secondment to the National Population Council of Ghana as the Executive Director, in charge of coordinating all population-related programmes in Ghana and advising government on relevant policy interventions.

Professor Joseph Awetori Yaro joined the Department of Geography and Resource Development, at the University of Ghana in 2005, after completing his Ph.D. in Human Geography at the University of Oslo in 2004. He is the African Visiting Scholar at Carleton University’s Institute of African Studies for the 2011-2012 academic year. He is the corresponding editor of the Ghana Journal of Geography and the immediate past Director of the Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana (2018 – 2021).