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Ama Ata Aidoo

West AfricaContemporaryPost-colonialDramaFiction
Changes: A Love Story
1991
Ama Ata Aidoo

Esi, a successful Ghanaian professional, leaves her first husband after he rapes her and enters a polygamous marriage believing it will grant more freedom, Aidoo's unsentimental exploration of love, work, and feminist possibility in contemporary Accra.

West AfricaFiction
Our Sister Killjoy
1977
Ama Ata Aidoo

A formally innovative novel blending prose and poetry, following Ghanaian student Sissie through Europe. A fierce critique of neo-colonialism, the African brain drain, and the seductions of Europe.

West AfricaFiction
The Dilemma of a Ghost
1964
Ama Ata Aidoo

Ghana's first published play by an African woman. An African American woman marries a Ghanaian and returns with him to Africa, where she is caught between two worlds, belonging fully to neither.

West AfricaDrama
Anowa
1970
Ama Ata Aidoo

Based on a Ghanaian legend, the play follows Anowa who defies her parents to marry the man she loves, only to watch him become a slave trader. A bold critique of complicity in the slave trade.

West AfricaDrama