Brief Profile

Cyrelene Amoah-Boampong is an African social historian with emphasis on Women’s and Gender history. She is an affiliate fellow of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy at the University of Ghana. Currently, she is a co-investigator in a Supranational Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant project, “Decolonization, the Disciplines and the University” under the auspices of the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, and a co-investigator on the “Gender equality and the decolonization of knowledge project” with the QES-AS West Africa.

Research Interest 

• African Women’s History
• Women’s Activism in Africa
• Women and Health

Selected Publications

1. Aziato, L., Amoah-Boampong, C., Sapong, (eds.). (2022). A History of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, 1960-2020: Changes and Continuities. Accra: Sub-Saharan Press.
2. Aziato, L., Amoah-Boampong, C., Sapong, NYB., Amfo, N. (Eds.). (2020). A history of nursing and midwifery in Ghana. Accra: CSIR. ISBN 9789988306946.
3. Amoah-Boampong, C. (2020). Women and the cooperative model in Ghana. In S. Ntewusu, & N. Paarmann (Eds.), Beyond Dichotomies: Aspects of History, Gender and Culture in Africa and Europe, Festschrift Bea Lundt (pp. 47-63). Munster: LIT Verlag. ISBN 978-3-643-14499-7.
4. Amoah-Boampong, C., & Agyeiwaa, C. (2019). Women in Pre-Colonial Africa: West Africa. In O. Yacob-Haliso, & T. Falola (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of African women’s studies (pp.1-1-13). London: Palgrave Macmillan. Online ISBN: 978-3-319-77030-7.
5. Amoah-Boampong, C. (2018). Historicising the Women’s Manifesto for Ghana: A culmination of women’s activism in Ghana. Legon Journal of Humanities 29 (2), 26-53.