Berlin University Alliance

From April to October2025, she serves as Audre Lorde Visiting Professor

of the Diversity and Gender Equality Network (DiGENet) of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA). She will be hosted at the Freie Universität Berlin. In Berlin, Professor Akorsu is teaching a master course on Changing Epistemologies: Feminist African Philosophy of Knowledge, and is working to develop a proposal for future cooperation. Her work will focus on the women’s work in the digital platform economy, exploring the intersection of gender, technology and labour and how digital platforms shape the experiences of women and other marginalized groups in the workforce. Professor Akorsu delivered her fellowship inaugural lecture at the “15thDiGENet networking event DiGENet Dialogues „Sustainable Synergies: Uniting Gender, Diversity, and Global South Voices“ on 6th May, 2025 on the topic, Gender Division of Labour, Women's Work and the Sus-tainability Question. In her lecture, she demonstrated how women’s work in Ghana is gendered and how that undermines sustainability. She explained that the root cause of gendered work is a hierarchically structured system of gender division of labour under the global capitalist economic system within which women anywhere, including Ghana are trapped. She further explained that the SDGs have failed to address women’s work problems because those are a creation by the global politico-economic powers and cannot counter the effects of its own ills. Thus, according to Professor Akorsu, sustainable work for women is not a mere gender issue; it is an economic, social, and environmental necessity that require an economic transformation with a gender-just, decolonized approach to sustainability, one that is rooted in African realities, histories, and collec-tive struggles