Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo was a Ghanian novelist, playwright, and feminist, perhaps most famous for her novel Our Sister Killjoy. She first attained literary fame in 1965 with her play The Dilemma of a Ghost.
Aidoo was born, along with her twin brother, on March 23, 1942 in the central region of Ghana then known as the Gold Coast. Her given name was Christina Ama Aidoo. Her father was a chief of the village, and helped open the first school in the village. At age fifteen, while at the Wesley Girls’ High...
