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BIOGRAPHY
Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghanaian writer, was born in Abeadzi Kyiakor, Gold Coast. Her father was a chief of the village. She was educated at the University of Ghana. She has taught in universities for many years in both Kenya and the United States. In 1974 she was a consulting professor to the Phelps-Stokes Fund's Ethnic Studies Program in Washington.
Aidoo gained recognition as a writer with her first publication, THE DILEMMA OF A GHOST, which she published when she was 23. One of her best known novels is OUR SISTER KILLJOY: OR, REFLECTIONS FROM A BLACK-EYED SQUINT. She won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her second novel, CHANGES.
Ama Ata Aidoo currently lives in Zimbabwe.
CHRONOLOGY
1942 She was born in Abeadzi Kyiakor, Gold Coast. (March 23)
1964 She graduated from the University of Ghana.
1965 THE DILEMMA OF A GHOST
1970 ANOWA; NO SWEETNESS HERE
1974 She became a consulting professor to the Phelps-Stokes Fund's Ethnic Studies Program.
1977 OUR SISTER KILLJOY; OR, REFLECTIONS FROM A BLACK-EYED SQUINT
1983 She became Minister of Education.; She moved to Zimbabwe.
1985 SOMEONE TALKING TO SOMETIME
1986 THE EAGLE AND THE CHICKEN
1987 BIRDS AND OTHER POEMS
1991 CHANGES: A LOVE STORY
1999 THE GIRL WHO CAN AND OTHER STORIES
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