Biography
Prof. (Mrs.) Maame Afua Nkrumah is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Languages and
Liberal Studies (CLLS) and the first female Professor of Takoradi Technical University (TTU).
Currently, she is the Director for Research, Innovation and Development. Her research area is in
Educational Measurements and Evaluation (Quality Assurance, Institutional Effectiveness and
gender issue). Prof Nkrumah holds a bachelor degree in Science Education (Chemistry, 2004)
from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana; a Master’s degree in Educational Measurement,
Evaluation and Assessment (2007) from the University of Twente, the Netherlands; and a PhD in
Education from the Bristol University, the United kingdom. Prof. Nkrumah has thirty-five (35)
scholarly articles/books to her credit and is still counting.
Prof. Nkrumah is a member of a number of important association such as the International
Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI), the Coalition on Media and
Education for Development, Africa; the African Union Commission on Education, the
Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), Commonwealth Association of Technical
Universities and Polytechnics in Africa (CAPA), Association of African Universities, the
Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), a Professional
fellow, Chartered Institute of Administrators and Management Consultants, Ghana, and Women
in Technical Education and Training (WITTED), Ghana and Africa.
Prof. Nkrumah has chaired or is chairing a number of both local and international committees.
Key among them are the Coalition on Media and Education for Development in Africa Forum’s
(CAFOR) Technical Committee on TVET for the African union (2022 –to date); the Local
Organizing Committee for the 4th Federal Polytechnic Ilaro, Nigeria International Conference
(2023); TTU 2nd Biennial Research Conference Committee (2022), the Strategic Plan (2021-
2025) Committee of TTU (2021), the Green Committee, the Sexual Harassment and
Investigative Committee (to date),
In 2021 she received the Takoradi Technical University “Vice Chancellor’s Special Award”.
Other awards are Master Presenter, by the National Institute for Staff and Organizational
Development (NISOD), A and M University, Austin, Texas USA (2009) and a NUFFIC
scholarship, Netherlands (2006).
Prof. Nkrumah’s recent trainings in relation her on-going projects include “Developing a
Circular Economy Ecosystem” within the West Clean Energy and Environment (WACCE) by
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and Wuppertal Institute for Climate
(2023), and Greening TVET in Ghana (2023- 2025) by Germany.
Her recent projects/Grants are:
1. 50,000 Euros from GIZ for Greening TVET (Biodigester and Digitalization), 2024.
2. ECOWAS Training/Examination Partner for the certification of Mini-Grid Designers,
Installers, and Inspectors by the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
(ECREE), 2024.
3. 6,250 Euros for the NKABOM Project independently financed by the France Embassy,
Ghana (2024)
3. 70,000 Euros for the Siemens Technology project, funded by GIZ and Siemens, Ghana, 2021 -
2023
4. 50,000 euros grant for improving teaching quality at the Faculty of Built and Natural
environment, TTU, Ghana (2021-2022)
5. 400,000 Euros Green energy project by the Green Solar Academy, Germany and its
international partners (2022).
6. 667,000Ghana Cedis ‘Skills for girls’ project by GIZ (2022).
