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# "To me, it is like oxygen"
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/takyiwaa-manuh/
- Published: 2007-11-29T09:11:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T02:20:00.000Z
- Description: Listen now to Takyiwaa Manuh on her work to empower women in Ghana plus: tackling domestic violence in Africa
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: Pathways Of Women's Empowerment, #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 14:30, #appended-excerpt

**openDemocracy'**s Jane Gabriel speaks to Takyiwaa Manuh, of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Accra, Ghana, about the importance of links between academics and activists in working towards women's empowerment.

This is the third podcast in our Pathways of Women's Empowerment series, and on going partnership with the Institute of Development Studies. IDS is running a research and communications programme linking academics, activists and practitioners to find out ‘what works' to empower women.

Our Marie Stopes Global Safe Abortion conference blog can be found [here,](https://www.opendemocracy.net/blog%5Fterms/global%5Fsafe%5Fabortion%5Fconference) as well as our Global Safe Abortion podcast which can be listened to [here](https://www.opendemocracy.net/article/5050/podcast/safe%5Fabortion).

  
Listen now to Takyiwaa Manuh on her work to empower women in Ghana  
plus: tackling [domestic violence in Africa](https://www.opendemocracy.net/article/5050/ghana%5Fdomestic%5Fviolence)