Ama Ata Aidoo is a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, and academic whose work delves into the complexities of African life and identity. Her writings often explore the enduring impacts of colonialism and the subsequent search for self-determination and cultural authenticity. Aidoo champions the resilience and spirit of African women, infusing her narratives with a powerful sense of advocacy and a commitment to amplifying marginalized voices. Through her distinctive prose, she offers profound social commentary and celebrates the richness of African heritage.
Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues.
In this collection of short stories, Aidoo elevates the mundane in women's lives to an intellectual level in an attempt at challenging patriarchal structures and dominance in African society. schovat popis
Aidoo's first novel explores the thoughts and experiences of a Ghanaian girl on her travels in Europe
Two dramas depict the stories of a man who returns to his native Ghana with his sophisticated American wife, and a young woman who marries the man she loves, against her parents' wishes
In this text, the author invites the reader to confront life as it is and to rise to the challenge of injustice and ignorance in post-colonial Ghana.
A Commonwealth Prize–winning novel of “intense power . . . examining the role of women in modern African society” by the acclaimed Ghanaian author ( Publishers Weekly ).Living in Ghana’s capital city of Accra with a postgraduate degree and a career in data analysis, Esi Sekyi is a thoroughly modern African woman. Perhaps that is why she decides to divorce her husband after enduring yet another morning’s marital rape. Though her friends and family are baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn’t beat her!), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man—wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage—the modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems.Witty and compelling, Aidoo’s novel, according to Manthia Diawara, “inaugurates a new realist style in African literature.” In an afterword to this edition, Tuzyline Jita Allan “places Aidoo’s work in a historical context and helps introduce this remarkable writer [who] sheds light on women’s problems around the globe” ( Publishers Weekly ).