Maria Andam

Maria 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. Maria 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

Contesting gender and neo-coloniality: a lens on anti-SRHR mobilization in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa in the Politique Africaine Journal (2023).

Sexual Minority Rights in the Routledge Handbook of Democratization in Africa (2019).

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).

Balancing the Equities in International Courts and the African Woman Judge: Unveiled Narratives (2017).