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born 1971 Ghana
Nana Aba Appiah Amfo (born 30 September 1971) is a Ghanaian linguist, university administrator and the current Vice-chancellor at the University of Ghana. Until her appointment, she was the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academic and Students Affairs at the University of Ghana in West Africa.
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It’s a combination of hard work, identifying opportunities and taking advantage of those opportunities, and some favour from God that makes great.
I always wanted to be a professor at the very top. It’s not your teacher, mentor, boss or parent’s responsibility.
You can’t do everything by yourself. Be on the lookout for talent; know the wide array of skills and strengths of your team and harness them for your benefit.
Give people the opportunity to prove themselves, but assign key roles to trusted people. Stakeholder engagement is really key and you cannot succeed as a leader without it.
The two concepts driving my tenure are technology and humanism. We need to incorporate technology in our teaching and learning in small and big ways.
Lifelong learning must not be confined to the classroom or to any age in life as life is dynamic; and the day you stop learning, you become intellectually dead and cease to be relevant to your society.
That is to say they must keep in touch with what was going on across the world but engage it based on the local context of the country’s population, literacy levels, access to technologies and its (country’s) priorities.
Pragmatics specifically looks at language use in context. For you to be able to make meaning out of what we say, you almost always need the context. Sometimes you need the history, the religion, the culture, you need the philosophy and so on.