Academic career Medie was awarded the 2012–2013
African Affairs African Author Prize for her article ''Fighting gender-based violence: The women's movement and the enforcement of rape law in Liberia
in the journal African Affairs, an African Studies journal. From 2013 to 2018, she worked as a research fellow at the University of Ghana in the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy. She served as an Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow at the University of Oxford in England from 2015 to 2016, and as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Niehaus Centre for Globalization and Governance at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University in New Jersey from 2016 to 2017. She is on the editorial board of the journal Politics & Gender.'' Medie discusses women's rights, feminism, politics, and violence against women at international panels held by the African Union and universities of the United Nations.
Fiction writing In addition to her academic work, Medie is a published fiction writer. She has produced several works of short fiction that focus on friendship and love in the lives of varying female characters. In 2020, she published her debut novel,
His Only Wife. It deals with the struggles of modern marriage in Ghana, the influences of culture on women's lives, and the interconnecting lives of three women, Afi, Evelyn, and Muna. It was described as "A Cinderella story set in Ghana" by
Kirkus. In 2021, she was named "Best Author" by the Ghanaian news station Citi TV at its annual Entertainment Achievement Awards. Her second novel,
Nightbloom, which follows two cousins along divergent but parallel paths on both sides of the
Atlantic, was released in 2023. The following year, it was longlisted for the
Women's Prize for Fiction. Medie has stated that her desire to explore the influence women's families can have on them as individuals, as well as what happens when pressure from family causes an individual to put aside their own desires to meet familial expectations, was a part of her inspiration for
Nightbloom. Medie describes her fiction as being heavily influenced by her academic research into gender, violence, and politics. == Selected works ==