Name:

Modestha Mensah

Biography:

Modestha Mensah is a Ph. D (Philosophy) candidate at the University of Ghana. Her thesis title is “A Critical Study of Personhood in Akan Thought: A Feminist Perspective”. She obtained both her B.A. (English and Philosophy) and M.Phil. (Philosophy) degrees at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana where she works as a lecturer at the Department of Classics and Philosophy. Modestha is an affiliate of the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab and the Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE), University of Bonn, where she was formally a guest scientist, under an Argerlander Scholarship which brings researchers from Ghana to Germany. Modestha specialises in African Social Political Philosophy, Ethics, and Critical thinking. Her research interests include AI ethics, feminist ethics, and feminist re-interpretations of African philosophical thought systems. She is a member of Women in AI and Robotics, Bonn chapter.