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| Name: |
Ama Ata Aidoo | | Variant Name: |
Christina Ama Aidoo | | Birth Date: |
March 23, 1942 | | Place of Birth: |
Abeadzi Kyiakor, Ghana | | Nationality: |
Ghanaian | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
writer, educator |
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Biography of Ama Ata Aidoo
2,892 words, approx. 10 pages
 Ama Ata Aidoo's identity as an African woman is a propelling force governing her artistic vision, and she is one of the few African writers who persist in exploring the colonial history of the continent, especially its legacy of slavery-hence the...
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Biography of (Christina) Ama Ata Aidoo
2,266 words, approx. 8 pages
 Ama Ata Aidoo's identity as an African woman is a propelling force governing her artistic vision, and she is one of the few African writers who persist in exploring the colonial history of the continent, especially its legacy of slavery--hence the...
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Biography of Ama Ata Aidoo
1,820 words, approx. 6 pages
 (Christina) Ama Ata Aidoo (born 1942) explored the social conscience of her African peers through her writing, speaking, and teaching endeavors. Ghanaian writer and educator, Ama Ata Aidoo delved the soul of African traditions through her literary...



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Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes
16 words, approx. 1 pages
 It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Ama Ata Aidoo Information
341 words, approx. 1 pages
 Ama Ata Aidoo (born March 23, 1942) is a Ghanaian author and playwright who was born Christina Ama Aidoo in Abeadzi Kyiakor. She grew up in a Fante royal household and was sent by her father to the Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast from 1961 to...



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 Studies in Short Fiction
The discourse of sweetness in Ama Ata Aidoo's No Sweetness Here.
03/22/1995: 4,621 words, approx. 15 pages Ama Ata Aidoo's works in the anthology 'No Sweetness Here' belie the hopelessness and bitterness that the title of her collection implies. Aidoo deals mainly with the post-colonial conditions in her native Ghana, which is moving into modernity while holding on to traditional values...
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 Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Rethinking the Specter: Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa.
12/01/2001: 6,959 words, approx. 23 pages Il faut parler du Fantome, voire au fantome et avec lui, des lors qu'aucune ethique, aucune politique, revolutionnaire ou non, ne parait possible et pensable et juste, qui ne reconnaisse son principe le respectsur ces autres qui ne sont plus ou pur ces...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Modupe Olaogun
10,924 words, approx. 36 pages
 In the following essay, Olaogun explores the recurring theme of slavery in Anowa, Bessie Head's Maru, and Buchi Emecheta's The Slave Girl, asserting that the slavery motif “suggests a deeper structural analysis of historical time than a focus on the immediate independence period as a privileged moment through which the postindependence morass in Africa could be understood.”
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Critical Essay by Maria Olaussen
10,394 words, approx. 35 pages
 In the following essay, Olaussen argues that Changes: A Love Story presents an “utopian” vision of the deconstruction of traditional sexual roles in postcolonial Africa.
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Critical Essay by Kofi Owusu
10,293 words, approx. 34 pages
 In the following essay, Owusu considers the impact of racial and gender issues on Our Sister Killjoy, commenting that the novel “seems to defy easy categorization, and one soon gets the impression that it defines itself by this very fact.”


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