OUR FELLOWS
The youngest of nine children, Faustina Dufie Wireko-Manu is the second member of her family to get a university degree and the first to obtain a PhD. She is the only person from her basic elementary school to earn a doctorate. “Now, one of my goals is to encourage young women that they can make it if they try,” says Wireko-Manu.
But I was more interested in food science and nutrition, and I have never regretted my decision,” she says. “Food is our basic need. Africa will be in serious trouble if we continue to live the way we are now with declining food production, rapidly increasing population, and choosing imported goods over locally produced food.
Field of Research
Application of the principles of food science to processing and value addition of locally produced food crops, such as root and tuber crops.