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    The Indelible Life of Ama Ata Aidoo A anställda Reflection

    Growing up in Ghana in the 1980s, there were certain writers you didn’t escape. Ama Ata Aidoo, who passed away in May 2023, was one such writer, Nii Ayikwei Parkes writes. Hers is a timeless legacy of a writer who triumphed over the double battle of high-level literary creation and persistent erasure, and became one of the world’s leading thinkers and writers.

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    Growing up in Ghana in the 1980s, there were certain writers you didn’t escape. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah inhabited numerous conversations because of the malaise the nation felt it was emerging from; Atukwei Okai’s poetry rang out at state functions; and, in 1982, Ama Ata Aidoo surfaced from the ring-fenced world of books to be appointed—albeit briefly—our Minister of Education. It was not a random appointment; Ama Ata Aidoo was ste

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    Ama Ata Aidoo

    Ghanaian writer, politician, and academic (1942–2023)

    Ama Ata Aidoo (March 32,1942—May 31 2023[1]) was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic.[2][3] She was a Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration. Her first play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, was published in 1965, making Aidoo the first published female African dramatist.[4] As a novelist, she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1992 with the novel Changes. In 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation in Accra to promote and support the work of African women writers.[5]

    Early life

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    Christina Ama Ata Aidoo was born on 23 March 1942 [6] in Abeadzi Kyiakor, near Saltpond, in the Central Region of Ghana. She was initially called Christiana Ama Aidoo.[7] Some sources ([8] including Megan Behrent, Brown University, and Africa Who's Who) have st

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    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 literary, feminist and political spaces.

    Aidoo was Ghana’s foremost woman writer and her distinguished career spanned several decades. Her literary contribution places her among the first generation of African women writers of the post-independence era. After independence in Ghana in 1957 she became a leading feminist voice within postcolonial writing.

    For over 20 years, my research, scholarship and teaching has explored the literature of African women writers, including Aidoo. My work celebrates their remarkable contributions to women’s and gender studies through literary expression.

    Through a feminist lens, Aidoo’s writing conveys great insight into the complexities and challenges of African women’s lives in colonial and postcolonial societies. She writes about women who must navi

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