![]() Her father was a chief of Abeadzi Kyakor, a political individual, asĪidoo's grandfather who was killed by the British. ![]() And I don't mean to be rude to you orĪnything, but who has that kind of time?'" (from Our Sister Killjoy, 1977)Īma Ata Aidoo was born in Abeadzi Kyiakor, Gold Coast, now Ghana. That, I shall have to speak every day, twenty-four hours a day, for at Have to tell you a detailed history of the African continent. ![]() Professor, 'to give you the decent answer your anxiety demands, I would In a distinct African identity, which she sees from a female Return to home for the benefit of their own communities. They internalize the ideologies of the colonizer and eventually fail to She has criticized thoseĮducated Africans who profess to love their country but are lured awayīy the material benefits of the developed word educated in the West, ![]() Leaders as a tool to keep people oppressed. Which won the 1993 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Africa region.Īidoo has noted that the idea of nationalism has been used by new ![]() Her acclaimed prose works include No Sweets Here (1970), a collection of short stories, the semi-autobiographical novel Our Sister Killjoy (1979), and Changes (1991), Ghanaian writer, who has depicted the role of African woman in modern society. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĪma Ata Aidoo (b. ![]()
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