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Ama Ata Aidoo: Critical Essay by Ranu Samantrai

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SOURCE: Samantrai, Ranu. “Caught at the Confluence of History: Ama Ata Aidoo's Necessary Nationalism.” Research in African Literatures 26, no. 2 (summer 1995): 140-57.

In the following essay, Samantrai asserts that African nationalism is a major recurring motif in Aidoo's oeuvre, noting that works such as Our Sister Killjoy function as “example[s of how a non-racialist, non-foundational African identity might lead to Pan-African solidarity.”]

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