Renowned writer, Ama Ata Aidoo, known for her literary contributions and activism, succumbed to a brief illness. The esteemed writer, known for her literary contributions and activism, succumbed to a ...

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When you fight the past, the past fights back.

The Ghanaian playwright and novelist, who also served as her country’s education minister, focused on the modern African woman The Ghanaian writer and academic Ama Ata Aidoo, whose work focused on the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Prolific author and former Ghanaian education minister Ama Ata Aidoo passed away on 31 May 2023 at the age of 81. News of her death reverberated around the world, proof of her towering influence in ...

One of Africa's most-celebrated authors and playwrights, Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo, has died aged 81. A renowned feminist, she depicted and celebrated the condition of African women in works such as The ...

She is arguably Ghana’s most famous English-language poet, playwright, essayist, novelist and educator. She is also one of the first of the then very few women to have graduated from the country’s ...