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Angela Dziedzom Akorsu is the 2025 Audre Lorde Visiting Professor at the Berlin University Alliance.

Angela Dziedzom Akorsu at her inaugural lecture as Audre Lorde Visiting Professor at the Berlin University Alliance

Angela Dziedzom Akorsu at her inaugural lecture as Audre Lorde Visiting Professor at the Berlin University Alliance
Image Credit: Sören Maahs

Every year, the Diversity and Gender Equality Network (DiGENet) at the Berlin University Alliance awards a visiting professorship to renowned scholars who have distinguished themselves through internationally recognized research in the field of intersectional diversity studies. On May 6, 2025, the new Audre Lorde Visiting Professor, Prof. Dr. Angela Dziedzom Akorsu, gave her inaugural lecture.

News from Jun 03, 2025

Angela Dziedzom Akorsu is Dean of the School for Development Studies and Associate Professor of Labor and Gender Studies at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. In her inaugural lecture in Berlin, entitled “Gender Division of Labor, Women's Work, and the Sustainability Question: The Case of Ghana,” she criticized the global capitalist economic system for forcing women in Ghana and around the world into hierarchical structures of gender-specific division of labor, thereby undermining sustainability. Akorsu emphasized that the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) do not sufficiently address the systemic causes of these inequalities. Instead, sustainable work for women requires a comprehensive transformation—with a gender-equitable, decolonial approach to sustainability that is rooted in African realities and collective struggles.

As Audre Lorde Visiting Professor of the Diversity and Gender Equality Network (DiGENet) at the Berlin University Alliance, Angela Akorsu will be researching and teaching at Freie Universität Berlin from April to October 2025. There, Akorsu will examine how digital platforms shape the working realities of women and other marginalized groups. She will also develop a concept for future scientific collaborations with the Berlin University Alliance. 

The DiGENet Audre Lorde Visiting Professorship at the Berlin University Alliance makes intersectional research perspectives visible both locally and transnationally and accessible for broader social debate by linking global challenges such as digitalization and climate change to the social realities of Berlin. In seminars, lecture series, workshops, and advisory formats, the visiting professors contribute their scientific expertise and experience with structural change, system transformations, and diversity in research and teaching to the Berlin University Alliance.

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