Daniel Yaw Fiaveh
University of Cape Coast, Ghana
dfiaveh@ucc.edu.gh
I am a sex sociologist-turned-anthropologist whose research examines the intersections of gender, sexuality, culture, and health in African societies. My work explores cultural representations of men and boys, sexual practices, pleasure, intimacy, and queer lives, while engaging critically with questions of power, desire, and embodiment. I contribute to theoretical and methodological debates in sexuality studies, advancing perspectives from the Global South. I serve as Academic Editor at PLOS ONE and Editor of the Ghana Journal of Sociology and Anthropology (GJSA), and I review for leading journals including The Lancet Global Health. I have examined theses at top African and European universities and supervise doctoral candidates at the University of Glasgow and KU Leuven. A CCNY, ACLS/AHP, and Gates Foundation Fellow, and two-time World Social Science Forum Fellow, I lecture at the University of Cape Coast and founded the Centre for Men’s Health and Sex Studies in Ghana.
Fiaveh, D. Y. (2025). Sexuality, gender, and spiritual interventions: Reflections on sexual world-making in Ghana. Journal of Africana Religions, 13 (1): 134–140. https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.13.1.0134. (Scopus).
Fiaveh, D. Y. (2024). Scoping review of discourses on masturbation in Africa: An Afrofeminist analysis. Journal of Gender Studies, 33(8): 1021-1038. (Scopus).
Fiaveh, D. Y. (2023). LGBQ+ in Ghana: Analysing local and western discourses. Sociolinguistic Studies, 17(1-3): 21-43.https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.24050. (Scopus).
Fiaveh, D. Y., & Mensah, E. (2023). Gender and sexuality in African discourses. Sociolinguistic Studies, 17(1-3): 7-19. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.24323. (Scopus).
Agbeve, A.S., Fiaveh, D.Y., Anto-Ocrah, M. (2022). Parent-adolescent sexuality communication in the African context: A scoping review of the literature. Sexual Medicine Reviews, 10(2):554−566. 10.1016/j.sxmr.2022.04.001. (Scopus).
2025 Member of UAPS Gender Equality Panel: In May, 2025, I was appointed as a member of the Gender Equality Thematic Panel of Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) for two years and renewable. https://www.uaps-uepa.org/current-panels/gender-equality/dr-daniel-yaw-fiaveh/.
2024 Postgraduate supervision/examination: Co-supervisor of two PhD students in top European universities, including the University of Glasgow in the UK and KU Leuven University in Belgium. Also examined for top universities in Africa and one from Eastern Europe and Eurasia, i.e., HSE University: One of Russia’s Top Universities.
2023 Guest journal editor: Guest edited a special issue in Sociolinguistics Studies and published in Volume 17.1–3 2023 titled Gender and sexuality in African discourses with a colleague, Eyo Mensah from the University of Calabar, Nigeria. ISSN: 1750-8649 (print) ISSN: 1750-8657 (online).
2020 Journal editor: I was appointed the journal editor for the Ghana Journal of Sociology and Anthropology (GJSA) [formerly Legon Journal of Sociology], a journal of the Ghana Sociological and Anthropological Association (GSAA). I have held this post since February 2020.
2019 Leadership role: I have served as departmental registration and examination officer of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology for nearly four years, showing the confidence and trust reposed in me in safeguarding a very sensitive area of university management, i.e., examinations.
ii. Co-Investigator (CO-I). 07/2022. "The place and perception of LGBTQI in Ghana from the earliest times to present: An anthropological and historical study”. Funded by The French Embassy, Ghana (€25,000). Completed.
iii. Co-Investigator (CO-I). 08/2022. "Cohabitation among in-school and out-of-school youth: The case of university students and the youth in UNFPA supported communities in the Central Region [Ghana].” Funded by UNFPA, Ghana (GHC135,700). Completed.
iv. PI. 12/2021-11/2022 “LGBT discourses in Ghana: How do we frame local and Western influences?” Funded by Directorate of Research, Innovation & Consultancy (DRIC), UCC—Research Support Grant (RSG/INDI/CHILS/2021/101) (GHS 6,200 about $1,002.07). Completed.
v. CO-I. 06/2020-06/2021. "Sexual and Reproductive Health Education among Rural Families in Ghana: A Study in Adaklu, Volta Region” Funded by International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH), USA ($3,500). Completed.
vi. PI. “Sex and herbal alcoholic aphrodisiacs in Ghana”. Funded by American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), USA. ($19,000). Completed.
vii. PI. 02/2012-12/2013. “Sexual pleasure and the construction of masculinities and femininities: Understanding sexuality in Ghana”. Funded by CODESRIA. ($5,000). Completed.
viii. PI. 06/2012-07/2013. “Male perspective(s) on condom use: context of STI/HIV prevention in the University of Ghana Community”. Funded by HIV/AIDS Interactive Training, Education and Development Center TALIF Project #CHSR/3/004/2005. (GHC1,500). Completed.