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Ama Ata Aidoo

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born

March 14, 1542 in Saltpond, Ghana

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female

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Literature & Fiction, Children's Books, Poetry

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She grew up in a Fante royal household, the daughter of Nana Yaw Fama, chief of Abeadzi Kyiakor, and Maame Abasema. She was sent by her father to the Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast from 1961 to 1964. The headmistress of Wesley Girls bought her her first typewriter. After leaving high school, she enrolled at the University of Ghana in Legon and received her bachelor of arts in English as well as writing her first play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, in 1964. The play was published by Longman the following year, making Aidoo the first published African woman dramatist.[1]

She worked in the United States of America where she held a fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University. She also served as a research fellow at the Institute of...more

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Average rating: 3.71 · 444 ratings · 53 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo, Tuzyline Allan (Designed by), Tuzyaline Jita Allan (Afterword) 3.71 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	My rating:
	No Sweetness Here and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo, Ketu H. Katrak 3.59 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1970 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa 3.70 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	My rating:
	African Love Stories: An Anthology 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	The Girl Who Can (African Writers Series) 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Anowa. 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Our Sister Killjoy by Aidoo, Aidoo 3.73 avg rating — 198 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	An Angry Letter In January And Other Poems 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	The Days 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	My rating:
	Diplomatic pounds & other stories 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:

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“Humans, not places, make memories.”
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“But what she also came to know was that someone somewhere would always see in any kind of difference, an excuse to be mean.”
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“A dog among the masters, the most masterly of the dogs.”
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