ama ata aidoo

Ama Ata Aidoo is a Ghanian author and playwright who was born Christina Ama Aidoo in Abeadzi Kyiakor in 1942. She grew up in the Fanti royal household and was sent by her father to the Wesley Girl's High School in Cape Coast from 1961 to 1964. After graduating, she enrolled at the University of Ghana in Legon and received her bachelor of arts in English as well as produced her first play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, in 1965. Aidoo's works of fiction particularly deal with the tension between Western and African world views. She is also an accomplished poet and has written several children's books. Other works by Ama Ata Aidoo:

Anowa (a play based on a Ghanian legend, 1970)
No Sweetness Here: A Collection of Short Stories (1970)
Birds and Other Poems (1988)
The Girl Who Can and Other Stories (1997)

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