Ama Ata Aidoo

Ama Ata Aidoo (23 March 1942 – 31 May

2023) was a Ghanaian author, poet,
playwright and academic.[1][2] She was
Secretary for Education in Ghana from
1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC
administration. Her first play, The Dilemma
of a Ghost, was published in 1965, making
Aidoo the first published African woman
dramatist.[3] 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.[4]
 Ama Ata Aidoo

Born Christina Ama Ata

Aidoo
23 March 1942
Abeadzi Kyiakor, near
Saltpond, Gold Coast
(now Ghana)
Died 31 May 2023
(aged 81)
Ghana
Occupation Author, playwright,
professor
Education Wesley Girls' Senior
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
Early life
Christina Ama Ata Aidoo was born on 23
March 1942 in Abeadzi Kyiakor, near
Saltpond, in the Central Region of Ghana.
Some sources (including Megan Behrent,
Brown University, and Africa Who's Who)
have stated that she was born on 31
March 1940.[5][6] She had a twin brother,
Kwame Ata.[7][8]

Aidoo was raised in a Fante royal

household, the daughter of Nana Yaw
Fama, chief of Abeadzi Kyiakor, and
Maame Abasema.[9] She grew up at a time
of resurgent British neocolonialism that
was taking place in her homeland. Her
grandfather was murdered by
neocolonialists,[10][11]which brought her
father's attention to the importance of
educating the children and families of the
village on the history and events of the era.
This led him to open up the first school in
their village and influenced Aidoo to attend
Wesley Girls' High School, where she first
decided she wanted to be a writer.[12]

Education
Aidoo attended Wesley Girls' Senior High
School in Cape Coast,[13] from 1961 to
1964. After high school, she enrolled at the
University of Ghana, Legon, where she
obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts in
English and also wrote her first play, The
Dilemma of a Ghost, in 1964.[1] The play
was published by Longman the following
year, making Aidoo the first published
African woman dramatist.[3]

Career
After graduating, Aidoo held a fellowship
in creative writing at Stanford University in
California,[1] before returning to Ghana in
1969 to teach English at the University of
Ghana.[14] She served as a research fellow
at the Institute of African Studies there,
and as a lecturer in English at the
University of Cape Coast, where she
eventually rose to the position of
professor.[15]

Aidoo was appointed Minister of

Education under the Provisional National
Defence Council in 1982. She resigned
after 18 months, realising that she would
be unable to achieve her aim of making
education in Ghana freely accessible to
all.[16] She has portrayed the role of African
women in contemporary society. She has
opined that the idea of nationalism has
been deployed by recent leaders as a
means of keeping people oppressed. She
has criticized those literate Africans who
profess to love their country but are
seduced away by the benefits of the
developed world.[17] She believed in a
distinct African identity, which she viewed
from a female perspective.[18]

In 1983, she moved to live in Zimbabwe,

where she continued her work in
education, including as curriculum
developer for the Zimbabwe Ministry of
Education, as well as writing.[19]

In London, England, in 1986, she delivered

the Walter Rodney Visions of Africa lecture
organised by the support group of Bogle-
L'Ouverture publishing house.[20]
Aidoo received a Fulbright Scholarship
award in 1988, and she was writer-in-
residence at the University of Richmond,
Virginia, in 1989,[19] and taught various
English courses at Hamilton College in
Clinton New York, in the early mid-1990s.
She was for seven years, until 2011, a
visiting professor in the Africana Studies
Department at Brown University.[21]

Aidoo was a patron of the Etisalat Prize for

Literature (alongside Dele Olojede, Ellah
Wakatama Allfrey, Margaret Busby, Sarah
Ladipo Manyika and Zakes Mda), created
in 2013 as a platform for African writers of
debut books of fiction.[22]
Writings
Aidoo's plays include The Dilemma of a
Ghost, produced at Legon in 1964 (first
published 1965) and Pittsburgh in 1988,
and Anowa, published in 1971 and
produced at the Gate Theatre in London in
1991.[19][23]

Her works of fiction particularly deal with

the tension between Western and African
world views. Her first novel, Our Sister
Killjoy, was published in 1977 and remains
one of her most popular works. It is
notable for portraying a dissenting
perspective on sexuality in Africa and
especially LGBT in Africa. Whereas one
popular idea on the continent is that
homosexuality is alien to Africa, and an
intrusion of the ideas of Western culture
into a pure, inherently heterosexual
"African" culture, Aidoo portrays the main
character of Killjoy as indulging in lesbian
fantasies of her own, and maintaining
sympathetic relationships with lesbian
characters.[24]

Many of Aidoo's other protagonists are

also women who defy the stereotypical
women's roles of their time, as in her play
Anowa. Her novel Changes: A Love Story
won the 1992 Commonwealth Writers'
Prize for Best Book (Africa). She was also
an accomplished poet—her collection
Someone Talking to Sometime won the
Nelson Mandela Prize for Poetry in
1987[25]—and the author of several
children's books.

Aidoo contributed the piece "To be a

woman" to the 1984 anthology Sisterhood
Is Global: The International Women's
Movement Anthology, edited by Robin
Morgan.[26] Her story "Two Sisters"
appears in the 1992 anthology Daughters
of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.[27]
In 2000, Aidoo founded the Mbaasem
Foundation, a non-governmental
organization based in Ghana with a
mission "to support the development and
sustainability of African women writers
and their artistic output",[4] which she ran
together with her daughter Kinna
Likimani[28] and a board of
management.[29]

Aidoo was the editor of the 2006

anthology African Love Stories.[30] In 2012,
she published Diplomatic Pounds & Other
Stories, a compilation of short stories,[31]
and another which is a collection of
essays by renowned writers in Ghana,
Africa and the African Diaspora.[32]

Death
Aidoo died on 31 May 2023, at the age of
81.[33][34] According to her family, she died
peacefully at home after a short
illness.[35][36][37]

Honours and recognition

Aidoo received several awards, including
winning the Mbari Club prize in 1962 for
her short story, “No Sweetness Here,”[19]
and the 1992 Commonwealth Writers'
Prize for Best Book (Africa) for her novel
Changes.[38]

In 2012, the volume Essays in honour of

Ama Ata Aidoo at 70 was published, edited
by Anne V. Adams, with contributors
including Atukwei Okai, Margaret Busby,
Maryse Condé, Micere Mugo, Toyin Falola,
Biodun Jeyifo, Kofi Anyidoho, Naana Jane
Opoku-Agyemang, Naana Banyiwa Horne,
Nana Wilson-Tagoe, Carole Boyce Davies,
Emmanuel Akyeampong, James Gibbs,
Vincent O. Odamtten, Jane Bryce, Esi
Sutherland-Addy, Femi Osofisan, Kwesi
Yankah, Abena Busia, Yaba Badoe, Ivor
Agyeman-Duah, Chikwenye Okonjo
Ogunyemi, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Kinna
Likimani, and others.[39][40]

Aidoo was the subject of a 2014

documentary film, The Art of Ama Ata
Aidoo, made by Yaba Badoe.[41][42][43]

The Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize, awarded by

the Women's Caucus of the African
Studies Association for an outstanding
book published by a woman that
prioritizes African women's experiences, is
named in honour of Ama Ata Aidoo and of
Margaret C. Snyder, who was the founding
director of UNIFEM.[44]
Launched in March 2017, the Ama Ata
Aidoo Centre for Creative Writing (Aidoo
Centre), under the auspices of the Kojo
Yankah School of Communications
Studies at the African University College of
Communications (AUCC) in Adabraka,
Accra, was named in her honour[45]—the
first centre of its kind in West Africa, with
Nii Ayikwei Parkes as its director.[46][47]

Selected works
The Dilemma of a Ghost (play), Accra:
Longman, 1965. New York: Macmillan,
1971.[12][48][49][50]
Anowa (play based on a Ghanaian
legend), London: Longman, 1970. New
York: Humanities Press, 1970.[51]
No Sweetness Here: A Collection of Short
Stories, London: Longman, 1970. New
York: Doubleday.[52][53]
Our Sister Killjoy: or Reflections from a
Black-eyed Squint (novel), Longman,
1977.[12][54]
Someone Talking to Sometime (poetry
collection), Harare: College Press,
1986.[53][55]
The Eagle and the Chickens and Other
Stories (for children), Enugu: Tana Press,
1986.[53]
Birds and Other Poems, Harare: College
Press, 1987.[55]
An Angry Letter in January (poems),
Coventry: Dangaroo Press, 1992,
ISSN 0106-5734 (https://www.worldcat.
org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0106-573
4) [56]

Changes: A Love Story (novel), London:

The Women's Press, 1991. New York:
Feminist Press at the City University of
New York, 1993.[12][57]
The Girl Who Can and Other Stories,
Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers,
ISBN 978-0435910136; Heinemann
African Writers Series, 1997.
Diplomatic Pounds & Other Stories,
Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2012,
 ISBN 978-0956240194.

As editor

African Love Stories: An Anthology,

Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2006.
ISBN 978-0-9547023-6-6.

Further reading
Anne V. Adams (editor), Essays in
Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70: A Reader
in African Cultural Studies, Banbury,
Oxfordshire, UK: Ayebia Clake
Publishing, 2012, ISBN 9780956930705.
Aditya Misra, "Death in Surprise: Gender
and Power Dynamics in Ama Ata Aidoo's
Anowa". Journal of Drama Studies, Vol. 6,
No. 1, 2012, pp. 81–91.
Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and G. Wilentz,
Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata
Aidoo, Africa Research & Publications,
1999.
Vincent O. Odamtten, The Art of Ama Ata
Aidoo: Polylectics and Reading Against
Neocolonialism. University Press of
Florida, 1994.
Esther Pujolràs-Noguer, An African
(Auto)biography. Ama Ata Aidoo's Literary
Quest: Strangeness, nation and tradition,
Lap Lambert Academic Publishing,
2012.
 Nafeesah Allen, "Negotiating with the
Diaspora: an Interview with Ama Ata
Aidoo" (http://sfonline.barnard.edu/afric
ana/aidoo_01.htm) , Scholar & Feminist
Online, 2009.

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Walling, artistic director of Border
Crossings theatre company.
"Ama Ata Aidoo on feminism in Africa -
BBC HARDtalk" (https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=W_gJwy9yjrk) , interview
with Zeinab Badawi, 22 July 2014.
YouTube.
Kundai Mugwanda-Nyamutenha,
"Women's History Month profile: Ama
Ata Aidoo" (https://thisisafrica.me/lifest
yle/womens-history-month-profile-ama-
ata-aidoo/) , This Is Africa, 30 March
2015.
Suzanne Kamata, "A Profile of Ama Ata
Aidoo" (http://www.literarymama.com/p
rofiles/archives/2016/02/a-profile-of-am
a-ata-aidoo-draft.html) , Literary Mama,
February 2016.
Princess Arita Anim, "Ama Ata Aidoo:
'Nobody could tell me writing was a
man's job' " (https://www.dvv-internation
al.de/en/adult-education-and-developm
 ent/editions/aed-842017-inclusion-and-
diversity/interviews/nobody-could-tell-m
e-writing-was-a-mans-job) , DVV
International.

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