Dzodzi Tsikata is a Ghanaian feminist, academic, professor of Development Sociology and Director of Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana.
[1] Dzodzi Tsikata is a professor at the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research at the University of Ghana.
She was elected in June 2015 as the president of Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) at their 14th general assembly meeting in Senegal.
[2] Her research interests have also included the exploitation of local contract farmers by large corporate plantations that are often characterized as having "few linkages" into the economies of the countries that they operate in.
She is an advocate against early marriages in Ghanaian communities, which currently sees a fourth of girls getting married before they turn eighteen years old.