Ama Ata Aidoo Ghanaian Playwright
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Details
| First Name |
Ama
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| Middle Name |
Ata
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| Last Name |
Aidoo
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| Birthday |
23rd March, 1942
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| Birthplace |
Saltpond, Ghana
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| Died |
31st May, 2023
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aries
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| Nationality |
Ghanaian
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| Occupation Text |
Author, Playwright, Professor
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| Occupation |
Playwright
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| Music Genre (Text) |
Drama, fiction, poetry
|
Ama Ata Aidoo (23 March 1942 – 31 May 2023) was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academic. With a career spanning more than five decades, she received international recognition as one of the most prominent African writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her first play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, was published in 1965, making Aidoo the first published African woman dramatist. As a novelist, she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Changes (1991), She was the Minister of Education in Ghana under the Jerry Rawlings administration. In 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation to promote and support the work of African women writers. She also lived and taught in the United States, Europe and Zimbabwe.
