Adjoa Kesewaa Agah credits her mother, a caterer, with igniting her creativity. “She would invite me into the kitchen, put a variety of ingredients out and say, ‘Make something with it’—and this made me not afraid to try new things,” she says. The lastborn in a family of three children whose father is a medical doctor, Agah says she appreciates the inspiration and freedom to experiment. After completing secondary school she did a degree in Chemical Engineering. She followed up with a master’s degree in Radiation Processing, and continues to solve problems as a research scientist at BNARI-GAEC.
Adjoa Kesewaa Agah credits her mother, a caterer, with igniting her creativity. “She would invite me into the kitchen, put a variety of ingredients out and say, ‘Make something with it’—and this made me not afraid to try new things.
Field of Research
Agah’s research work involves introducing products and technologies that can help local processers produce nutritious food from sweet potatoes and soybeans.