RoseEmma Mamaa Entsua-Mensah (née Croffie; born 24 September 1959) is a Ghanaian fisheries scientist and freshwater aquatic ecologist.
Her work has focused on documenting fish species in freshwater ecosystems and evaluating environmental impacts on their environments.
Croffie attended Wesley Girls' Senior High School in Cape Coast, completing her O-levels in 1977 and her A-levels in 1979.
Croffie married Clement Entsua-Mensah,[1] a librarian at the University of Cape Coast,[3] with whom she had three children: Nanakua, Maame Adwoa, and Kobby.
In 1994, Entusua-Mensah was awarded a Tonolli Memorial Fellowship from the International Society of Limnology to assist with her PhD studies.
[1] She warned of the damages caused to the environment by illegal mining, salt winning, and improper sewage disposal, noting in particular that the destruction of mangroves impacted fish and wildlife as well as human development.
[1][11] Entusua-Mensah was honoured for her work in fish farming by the South African NGO, Creating Excellence, in 2013 as Africa's Most Influential Woman in Agricultural Research and was inducted as a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015.
[13] The first steering committee had representatives from the diaspora, as well as members such as Afaf Marei and Manal Samra (Egypt), Peggy Oti-Boateng (Ghana), Norah Olembo and Agnes Wakesho Mwang'ombe (Kenya), Mamolise Falatsa and Deepa Pullanikkatil (Lesotho), Ogugua Rita Eboh and Obioma Nwaorgu (Nigeria), Bitrina Diyamett (Tanzania) and Noah Matovu (Uganda), who were considered to be experts in their fields.
Created in 2017,[17] the CCST offers courses on instruction in agriculture, clean air and water, entrepreneurship, health and medicine, natural resource conservation, sanitation management, sustainable energy, and transportation.