Dzodzi Tsikata is a

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ian feminist, academic,

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of Development Sociology and Director of Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the

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Biography

Dzodzi Tsikata is a professor at the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research at the

. Her academic interests include gender and development Issues, gender equity policies and practices. She was elected in June 2015 as the president of Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (

CODESRIA The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is Pan-African research organisation headquartered in Dakar, Senegal. The current President of CODESRIA is Dzodzi Tsikata. Background CODESRIA was established in 19 ...

) at their 14th general assembly meeting in Senegal. Her research interests have also included the exploitation of local contract farmers by large corporate plantations that are often characterized as having "few linkages" into the economies of the countries that they operate in. Along with researchers from the

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and

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, Dzodzi Tsikata received funding from the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council to investigate the pros and cons of commercial farming models in Africa. Since August 2016, she has been the director of the

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at the University of Ghana. She is an advocate against early marriages in Ghanaian communities, which currently sees a fourth of girls getting married before they turn eighteen years old.

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