Yaw Ofosu-Kusi is Associate Professor of Social Studies and Dean of the
Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Education, Winneba,
Ghana. He obtained his doctorate degree in Applied Social Studies from
the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. His research interest is
primarily in urban childhood and the informal economy, with specific
attention given to child migration, street life and labour, and
children’s agency. One of his publications is ‘Dreams, expectations and
experiential realities of street children in Accra, Ghana‘, and Narrating
(Hi)Stories in West Africa (Berlin: Lit Verlag 2015).