Kuukuwa Andam

Kuukuwa Andam teaches courses on the intersection of law and gender/sexuality in Africa. Her courses include Women and the Law in Africa, Introduction to Human Rights in Africa, and Hot Topics in African Feminisms Today. Kuukuwa is a lawyer with experience working on Human Rights Cases in Ghana and San Francisco. She has provided country conditions expertise, on human rights issues in Africa, for international human rights organizations in Europe and the U.S.

Selected Publications

Nabaneh, Satang, Andam, Kuukuwa, Odada, Kerigo, Eriksson, Asa, and Marion, Stevens. Contesting gender and neo-coloniality: a lens on anti-SRHR mobilization in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa in the Politique Africaine Journal (2023).

Andam, Kuukuwa and Epprecht, Marc. Sexual Minority Rights in the Routledge Handbook of Democratization in Africa (2019).

Epprecht, Marc, Murray, Stephen, Andam, Kuukuwa, Miguel, Francisco, Mbaye, Aminata, and Rudolf, Gaudio. Boy Wives, Female Husbands Twenty Years on: Reflections on Scholarly Activism and the Struggle for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity/Expression Rights in Africa in the Canadian Journal of African Studies (2019).

Andam, Kuukuwa. LGBT Issues in Ghana, in The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender LGBTQ History (2019).

Andam, Kuukuwa. Slavery and Homosexuality, in The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender LGBTQ History (2019).

Andam, Kuukuwa. Afro pop and LGBT Issues in Africa, in The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender LGBTQ History (2019).

Andam, Kuukuwa. Sophia Akuffo: Balancing the Equities in International Courts and the African Woman Judge: Unveiled Narratives (2017).