Sylvia Bawa

Dr. Sylvia Bawa is an Assistant Professor at York University (Sociology). She is a global sociologist whose research interests revolve around interconnections of globalization, structural inequality and discourses of culture and women’s rights in Sub-Saharan Africa. She researches, writes and teaches in areas of human rights, postcolonial and third world feminisms, critical development studies, women’s rights and empowerment and sociology of globalization and social change.

Recent publications:

Addison, L., Schnurr, M. A., Gore, C., Bawa, S., & Mujabi-Mujuzi, S. (2021). Women’s Empowerment in Africa: Critical Reflections on the Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI). African Studies Review, 64(2), 276–291.

Andrews, N., & Bawa, S. (2019). “People come and go but we don’t see anything”: How Might Social Research Contribute to Social Change? Qualitative Report, 24(11), 2874–2890.

Bawa, S. (2018). “Feminists make too much noise!”: Generational differences and ambivalence in feminist development politics in Ghana. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 52(1), 1–17.

Bawa, S. (2019). Christianity, tradition, and gender inequality in postcolonial Ghana. African Geographical Review, 38(1), 54–66.

Bawa, S., & Adeniyi Ogunyankin, G. (2018). (Un)African women: Identity, class and moral geographies in postcolonial times. African Identities, 16(4), 444–459.

Okafor, O. C., Ahmed, S., Bawa, S., & Odumosu-Ayanu, I. (2020). Presence through absence? Understanding the role of capital in the African Human Rights Action Plan. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 58(4), 579–600.