When you fight the past, the past fights back.

A playwright, novelist and poet, she was a leading African writer who explored the complexities faced by modern women living in the shadow of colonialism. By Alex Williams Ama Ata Aidoo, a Ghanaian ...

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From 1979 to 1980, a group of young Ghanaian writers worked with the internationally celebrated musician Guy Warren aka Kofi Ghanaba, to create an organisation to promote Ghanaian music and literature ...

According to a statement from her family, the legendary writer passed away in the early hours of today, May 31, 2023. “The Family of PROF. AMA ATA AIDOO with deep sorrow but in the hope of the ...

Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies Carina Ray was presented with the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize in a ceremony Nov. 18 in Chicago. The prize is awarded by the Women’s Caucus of the ...

Introduction : a breath of fresh air / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Gay Wilentz -- Reading the critical writer / Gay Wilentz -- Unwelcome pals and decorative slaves or glimpses of women as writers and ...

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Bibi Burger receives funding from the American Council of Learned Societies as part of their African Humanities Program, and is an Iso Lomso fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. In ...

The family announced her passing in the early hours of Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The esteemed writer, known for her literary contributions and activism, succumbed to a brief illness. The Aidoo family, ...

Out of Africa with her degree and her all-seeing eyes comes Sissie. She comes to Europe, to a land of towering mountains and low grey skies and tries to make sense of it all. What is she doing here?

The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo is a film by filmmaker Yaba Badoe: The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo, explores the artistic contribution of one of Africa's foremost women writers, a trailblazer for an entire ...