Ama Ata Aidoo
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Ghanaian author and poet
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It is catalogued under topics including 1940 births, 2023 deaths and 20th-century Ghanaian educators.
Its subject is documented across 41 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Born
- Christina Ama Ata Aidoo , ( 1942-03-23 ) 23 March 1942, Abeadzi Kyiakor , Gold Coast (now Ghana)
- Died
- 31 May 2023 (2023-05-31) (aged 81) , Accra , Ghana
- Occupation
- Author playwright professor
- Education
- Wesley Girls' High School
- Alma mater
- University of Ghana
- Genre
- Drama fiction poetry
- Subject
- Comparative literature postcolonial literature
- Notable works
- The Dilemma of a Ghost (1965) Anowa (1970) Our Sister Killjoy (1977) Changes (1991)
- Notable awards
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize , 1992
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Ghana
- Place of death
- Accra
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Stanford University
- Employer
- University of Richmond
- Languages spoken
- Fante
- Native language
- Fante
- Field of work
- drama
- Image
- Ama Ata Aidoo (2016).png
- Work location
- Zimbabwe
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- date of birth
- 1942-03-23
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- name in native language
- Ama Ata Aidoo
- date of death
- 2023-05-31
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- disease
- Commons category
- Ama Ata Aidoo
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Encyclopedic overview
Ama Ata Aidoo (23 March 1942 – 31 May 2023) was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. She was the Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration.
Aidoo's first play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, was published in 1965, making her the first published female African dramatist. 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.
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