Prof. Stephen Owusu Kwankye

Status: Associate Professor

Qualification: Ph.D; M.A; M.Phil Population Studies (Ghana); B.A. Geography (Ghana)

Department or Unit: Regional Institute of Population Studies

Email: kwankyes@ug.edu.gh

Stephen Owusu Kwankye is an Associate Professor at the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana, Legon. He is also a member of the Inter-Faculty Working Group of the Centre for Migration Studies (CSM) at the University of Ghana. He is a Demographer by training and holds a Ph.D. in Population Studies. He is currently on secondment to the National Population Council (NPC) Secretariat, Accra, Ghana as its Executive Director.

He worked with CMS, a National Migration Policy for Ghana that is awaiting adoption by the government. In 2012, he lectured at the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons on the theme “Growing Old in Ghana: The Health and Economic Implications”. His areas of research and publications include migration (particularly child migration), population and development interrelationships, fertility and adolescent/youth reproductive health, and demographic data collection.

Area of Research Interest:

Independent child migration, Population and development interrelationships, Fertility and adolescent/youth reproductive health, Demographic data collection, particularly the civil registration system

List of recent publications

• Kwankye, S.O. (2012). Transition into adulthood: experiences of return independent child migrants in northern Ghana. Omnes The Journal of Multicultural Society. Vol.3 No.1, pp. 1-24.
• Kwankye, S.O. (2011). Independent North–South Child Migration as a Parental Investment in Northern Ghana. Population, Space, and Place. Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/psp.682.
• Kwankye, S.O. (2010). The Social and Reproductive Health Implications of Independent North-South Child Migration in Ghana. Research Review. NS 26.2, 19-27.
• Kwankye S.O (2010). Population growth and Agricultural Development in the Afram Plains of Ghana. In: Codjoe, SNA (Ed) Population-Environment Nexus in Ghana: A Case Study of Afram Plains, pp. 22-53. Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken.
• S O. Kwankye, J.K. Anarfi, C.A. Tagoe and A. Castaldo (2009). "Independent North-South Child Migration in Ghana: The Decision-Making Process". Sussex Centre for Migration Research Working Paper T-29. February.
• Stephen O. Kwankye, John K. Anarfi, Cynthia Addoquaye Tagoe, and Adriana Castaldo (2009). "Coping Strategies of Independent Child Migrants from Northern Ghana to Southern Cities" in S. Rajagopalan (ed) Rural-urban Migration: Trends, Challenges, and Strategies. The Isfai University Press, India, pp. 171-197.
• Kwankye, S.O., and Tagoe, C.A. (2009). City Life outside the Home: The Experience of Independent Child Migrants in Ghana. Independent Child Migration in Ghana. Anarfi, J.K. and Kwankye, S.O. (eds), Accra, Ghana, pp. 132-170.
• Kwankye, S.O., and Tagoe, C.A. (2009). Returning Home and Re-integrating as an Independent Child Migrant in Ghana. Independent Child Migration in Ghana. Anarfi, J.K. and Kwankye, S.O. (eds), Accra, Ghana, pp. 206-247.
• Kwankye, S.O. (2007). Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Ghana: Some Results from a Survey of Cape Coast and Mankrong. Population, Health, and Development in Ghana: Attaining the Millennium Development Goals. Chuks J. Mba and Stephen O. Kwankye (eds); pp. 53-90.
• Stephen O. Kwankye, John K. Anarfi, Cynthia Addoquaye Tagoe, and Adriana Castaldo. 2007. Coping Strategies of Independent Child Migrants from Northern Ghana to Southern Cities". Migration DRC WP-T23. November.
• Stephen O. Kwankye and Eric Augustt (2007) "Media Exposure and Reproductive Health Behaviour Among Young Females in Ghana" African Population Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, December, pp. 77-106.
• Stephen O. Kwankye, Nyarko, P.E. and Anarfi J.K. (2007). "Empirical estimation of the completeness of death registration in Greater Accra Region, Ghana, 1999-2001". African Population Studies Special Issue on Exploiting Alternative and Scarcely Tapped Sources of Vital Statistics in Africa, June, pp. 7-35.
• Stephen O. Kwankye and Mba, C.J. (2007) "Analysis of customary marriage statistics in Accra metropolis, Ghana, 2003-2006". African Population Studies Special Issue on Exploiting Alternative and Scarcely Tapped Sources of Vital Statistics in Africa, June, pp. 59-77.
• Chuks J. Mba and Stephen O. Kwankye (eds) (2007). "Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Ghana: Some Results from a Survey of Cape Coast and Mankrong". Population, Health, and Development in Ghana: Attaining the Millennium Development Goals. pp. 53-90.