We wake up this morning to the sad news of the passing away
of a noble and prolific author, play-write, poet, academic and feminist AMA ATA
AIDOO.
Born on march 23, 1942 (81 yrs.) in Cape-Coast (Saltpond-
Ghana). She attended to Wesley Girls High School and later to the University of
Ghana. She was a dedicated writer whose notable works covers subjects not
limited to comparative literature and post- colonial literature among others.
Her writings includes drama and plays, literature and
fiction books some of which are titled;
THE DILEMMA OF A GHOST (1965), CHANGES: A LOVE STORY (1991),
OUR SISTER KILLJOY (1997), GHANA WHERE THE BEAD SPEAKS (2008), DIPLOMATIC POUNDS (2012)
just to mention few.
As the saying goes, good works never go unrewarded, she was recognized
and awarded with the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize in 1992, for best book
(Africa) for her novel, CHANGES.
In 2017, the Ama Ata Aidoo Centre For Creative Writing (AIDOO
CENTRE) was launched under the auspices of the Kojo Yankah School Of
Communication Studies at the African University College Of Communications in
Adabraka (Accra) to honor her. The centre is the first of its kind in
West-Africa.
Ama Ata Aidoo would be missed dearly and would go down in
history as one of the renowned writers Africa and the world has seen.
May her soul rest in perfect peace.
Born on march 23, 1942 (81 yrs.) in Cape-Coast (Saltpond- Ghana). She attended to Wesley Girls High School and later to the University of Ghana. She was a dedicated writer whose notable works covers subjects not limited to comparative literature and post- colonial literature among others.
Her writings includes drama and plays, literature and fiction books some of which are titled;
THE DILEMMA OF A GHOST (1965), CHANGES: A LOVE STORY (1991), OUR SISTER KILLJOY (1997), GHANA WHERE THE BEAD SPEAKS (2008), DIPLOMATIC POUNDS (2012) just to mention few.
As the saying goes, good works never go unrewarded, she was recognized and awarded with the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize in 1992, for best book (Africa) for her novel, CHANGES.
In 2017, the Ama Ata Aidoo Centre For Creative Writing (AIDOO CENTRE) was launched under the auspices of the Kojo Yankah School Of Communication Studies at the African University College Of Communications in Adabraka (Accra) to honor her. The centre is the first of its kind in West-Africa.
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