Ama Ata Aidoo (23 March 1942 – 31 May 2023) was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. She was Secretary for Education in Ghana...
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novelist Ama Ata Aidoo, coming to a homeland to empower woman despite the challenges they face. Ama Ata Aidoo "Home". The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo. 2011-03-01...
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Changes: a Love Story is a 1991 novel by Ama Ata Aidoo, chronicling a period of the life of a career-centred Ghanaian woman as she divorces her first...
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The Dilemma of a Ghost is a play by Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo that was first performed in March 1964 for three nights at the Open Air Theatre of the...
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Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint is the debut novel of Ghanaian author Ama Ata Aidoo, first published by Longman in 1977. It has been called "a witty, experimental...
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Anowa is a play by Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo that was published in 1970, after Aidoo returned from Stanford University in California to teach at the...
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Aidoo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023), Ghanaian writer Fiifi Aidoo (born 1996), Ghanaian-Finnish basketball...
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The Mbaasem Foundation is a foundation established by Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo in Accra, Ghana, in 2000. It is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to...
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a range of disciplines, including interactions with Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Maya Angelou, W. E. B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois, Margaret...
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African writers, including Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Steve Biko, Ama Ata Aidoo, Nadine Gordimer, Buchi Emecheta, and Okot p'Bitek. 1958 – William Heinemann...
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Neely, "The Art of AMA ATA AIDOO: Documentary Film Launch", African Women's Development Fund, 26 September 2014. "The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo - a film by Yaba...
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Change. Changes may refer to: Changes: A Love Story, 1991 novel by Ama Ata Aidoo Changes (The Dresden Files) (2010), the 12th novel in Jim Butcher's...
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Mirza Adeeb (1914–1999) Pilar Adón (born 1971) Stan Ageira (born 1961) Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892–1927) Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916)...
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(1959–) Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977–) Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023) Mariama Ba (1929–1981) Giannina Braschi(1953–) Edwidge Danticat(1969–)...
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(Angola): Rainy Season, Creole, The Book of Chameleons, My Father's Wives Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana): Our Sister Killjoy (1977), Changes: a Love Story (1991) Germano...
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Margaret Busby, "Foreword: An Open Letter to Ama Ata Aidoo", in Anne V. Adams (ed.), Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70: A Reader in African Cultural Studies...
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Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty (b. 1916) Padmore Enyonam Agbemabiese (b. 1965) Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023) Kofi Anyidoho (b. 1947) Raphael Armattoe (1913–1953) Kofi...
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Kwegyir Aggrey John Mensah Sarbah Kobina Arku Korsah (Sir Arku Korsah) Ama Ata Aidoo William Ansah Sessarakoo George Ekem Ferguson K. B. Anann Isaac Dadzie...
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Kofi Awoonor, Efua Sutherland (later also editor), Ayi Kwei Armah and Ama Ata Aidoo. The publication took its name from a traditional Ghanaian figure, the...
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Retrieved 17 August 2024. Danquah, Nana-Ama (2 June 2023). "We are here: In memory of Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo". The Africa Report. Archived from the...
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a 2002 novel by Julie Garwood (Our Sister) Killjoy, a 1977 novel by Ama Ata Aidoo Killjoy, the NATO reporting name of the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal missile All...
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said "I have such an immense admiration for your very fine leader". Ama Ata Aidoo, a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academic said that Lee's death...
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nf/f/p) Robert Aickman (1914–1981, England, f/nf) Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023, Gold Coast/Ghana, f/nf/p) Kofi Aidoo (born 1950s, Gold Coast/Ghana, f) Naja Marie...
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Gates and Gerald Guralnik. Faculty in literature include Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Carlos Fuentes. Among Brown's faculty and fellows in political...
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educational pioneer. May 16: Akwaboah Snr, singer-songwriter. May 31: Ama Ata Aidoo, 81, author and playwright (The Dilemma of a Ghost, Anowa), minister...
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Caicos Islands, first female Chief Justice of The Gambia (2013-2014) Ama Ata Aidoo, award-winning author, academic, former Minister of Education Sophia...
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short story of the same name by foremost Ghanaian author and poet Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo. On Now Here Cool, she is heard reciting a piece from the same story:...
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Agathon (c. 448 – c. 400 BCE, Athens) Bola Agbaje (born c. 1981, England) Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023, Gold Coast, now Ghana) George L. Aiken (1830–1876, United...
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Alhassan Suhuyini, broadcast journalist Reggie Yates, television presenter Ama Ata Aidoo, writer Mohammed Naseehu Ali, writer and musician Kofi Anyidoho, poet...
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Parkes was appointed as the founding director of the Ama Ata Aidoo Centre for Creative Writing (Aidoo Centre), launched in Accra in March 2017, under the...
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