Books By Ama Ata Aidoo - Author

Ama Ata Aidoo (1942- 2023) was a Ghanaian novelist, playwright, poet, politician, academic and activist: 'one of Africa's leading literary lights as well as its most influential feminists' (New York Times). Born in a Fante royal household, her grandfather had been murdered by British neocolonialists, and her father was a chief who built their village's first school. Aidoo attended Wesley Girls' High School and obtained a degree in English from the University of Ghana, Legon. She won her first story contest aged 19, and her breakthrough play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, made her the first published female African dramatist in 1965. Her debut novel, Our Sister Killjoy, or Reflections From a Black-Eyed Squint, was published in 1977, and Changes: A Love Story won the 1992 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Aidoo rejected the 'Western perception that the African female is a downtrodden wretch' and chronicled the fight for equality as inextricable from