Dear Fellows, Members, Partners, and Friends of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS), as we mark the Christmas season and prepare to welcome a New Year, I extend warm greetings to you on behalf of the Council and Fellows of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Christmas invites reflection on service, sacrifice, and our shared responsibility to society. In a year marked by complex challenges and evolving opportunities, the Academy has remained steadfast in its mission to advance knowledge, promote scholarship, and contribute meaningfully to national development. This has been possible because of your dedication, intellectual rigor, and commitment to excellence.
As we step into the New Year, we do so with renewed resolve. The Academy will continue to champion rigorous inquiry, interdisciplinary engagement, and evidence-based discourse in the service of Ghana and the wider global community. The year ahead calls for clarity of thought, integrity of purpose, and courage in ideas, and GAAS stands ready to lead.
May the Christmas season bring you peace and renewal, and may the New Year offer strength, wisdom, and fresh opportunities for impact.
I wish you and your families a joyful Christmas and a purposeful, prosperous New Year.
With best wishes,
Sincerely,
Emerita Professor Isabella Akyinbah Quakyi, FGA
President, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS)
The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) successfully hosted the 59th edition of the J.B. Danquah Memorial Lecture, a notable annual event held in honour of Dr. Joseph Boakye Danquah, a founding member of the Academy. This year’s keynote speaker, Professor Lloyd G. Adu Amoah, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana and Founding Director of the Centre for Asian Studies, delivered a compelling three-day lecture series under the theme “Africa–China Relations: Partnership, Peonage, Pawnage and Possibilities.”
The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) join the global community in celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, observed annually on 11th February. This year’s theme, From Vision to Impact: Redefining STEM by Closing the Gender Gap, underscores the urgent need to create and expand opportunities for women and girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
The Ghana Young Academy (GhYA) held its 10th Annual General Meeting and 9th Induction Ceremony on Thursday, 29 January 2026, at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) Secretariat in Accra. The ceremony marked a historic milestone for the Academy, recording its largest induction cohort with 23 new members and hosting its first in person induction ceremony since 2021.
A Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) and Professor of Gender and African Studies at the University of Ghana, Emerita Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo (FGA), has called on students and young people to pursue academic excellence with discipline, ethical responsibility, and commitment. She emphasized that genuine achievement is always rooted in honesty, perseverance, and hard work.
The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) has inducted six distinguished Ghanaian personalities into Fellowship as part of its 2025 Founder’s Week Celebrations, which run from 11th to 14th November 2025. The new Fellows were nominated and inducted on the basis of their outstanding contributions to the fields of arts and sciences.
The Immediate Past President of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS), Professor Kofi Opoku Nti, has called for a comprehensive redesign of Ghana’s agrarian and industrial economy to align with global demands and unlock the nation’s full economic potential for its youthful population.
The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) hosted a former Majority Leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, on the second day of its Founder’s Week symposium where he delivered a lecture on the “Architecture of Political Transitions.” In his presentation, he emphasized the need for constitutional reforms to strengthen Ghana’s democratic transition processes and proposed measures to enhance the coordination of power transfers.
A Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Ghana, Dr Rosina Foli, has highlighted the need for stronger dispute resolution structures and enhanced civic education as vital tools for safeguarding peaceful political transitions in Ghana. She made the remarks during the 2025 Founder’s Week public symposium of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS), held in Accra from November 11 to 14, 2025.
The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) has intensified national dialogue on the impact of cooking fuels on public health and the environment through its 2025 Annual Lecture in the Sciences, held on Thursday, 9 October 2025, at the Academy’s Secretariat in Accra.
A Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Prof. Richmond Nii Okai Aryeetey FGA, has called for the mainstreaming of nutrition into Ghana’s national development planning, emphasising that the country’s food systems governance remains fragmented and ineffective.