BA; MA; Ph D. Soc. Anth. Cambridge; MA African Studies, University of Ghana.
Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences; Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Recently awarded a plaque for services to the development of research and teaching over twenty five years in the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra.
For some time a research anthropologist and technical and policy adviser, Gender, Population and Development in the Employment and Development Department of the International Labour Organization, Geneva.
NIAS Fellow 2000-1 & 2003.
Has embarked on publishing a series of volumes on fifty years of family change - focusing on Ghana and the United Kingdom.