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  • Aidoo, Ama Ata. Our Sister Killjoy. Essex: Pearson, 1994.
  • Owusu, Kofi. “Canons Under Siege: Blackness, Femaleness, and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy.” Callaloo, vol. 13, no. 2, 1990, pp. 341–63.

  • Cooper, Brenda. “Chaiba the Algerian versus Our Sister Killjoy: The Case for a Materialist Black Aesthetic.” English in Africa, vol. 12, no. 2, 1985, pp. 21–51.

  • Elia, Nada. “‘To Be an African Working Woman’: Levels of Feminist Consciousness in Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘Changes.’” Research in African Literatures, vol. 30, no. 2, 1999, pp. 136–47.

  • Gqola, Pumla Dineo. “Ufanele Uqavile: Blackwomen, Feminisms and Postcoloniality in Africa.” Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, no. 50, 2001, pp. 11–22.

  • Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney, and Ama Ata Aidoo. “An Interview with Ama Ata Aidoo.” The Massachusetts Review, vol. 36, no. 1, 1995, pp. 123–33.

  • George, Rosemary Marangoly, et al. “‘A New Tail to an Old Tale’: An Interview with Ama Ata Aidoo.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 26, no. 3, 1993, pp. 297–308.

  • Hill-Lubin, Mildred A. “The Relationship of African-Americans and Africans : A Recurring Theme in the Works of Ata Aidoo.” Présence Africaine, no. 124, 1982, pp. 190–201.

  • Hayes, Jarrod. Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family Tree. University of Michigan Press, 2016.

  • Wilson-Tagoe, Nana. "Reading Towards a Theorization of African Women's Writing: African Women Writers Within Feminist Gynocriticism." Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa, edited by Stephanie Newell, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2017, pp. 11-28.

  • Opara, Chioma, "Narrative Techniques and the Politics of Gender: Ama Ata Aidoo's 'Our Sister Killjoy' and 'No Sweetness Here.'" Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa, edited by Stephanie Newell, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2017, pp. 137-146.

  • Quashie, Kevin Everod. Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)Becoming the Subject. Rutgers University Press, 2004.

  • Khannous, Touria. African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse. Blue Ridge Summit, Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2013.

  • " Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghanaian writer who was voice of African women, dies at 81." Washington Post. 1/18/24. <https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/06/09/ama-ata-aidoo-ghana-author-dies/>.
  • "Remembering Ama Ata Aidoo." African Literature Association. 1/18/24. <https://africanlit.org/statements/remembering-ama-ata-aidoo/>.
  • "Ama Ata Aidoo." Wikipedia. 1/18/24. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama_Ata_Aidoo>.
  • "Ama Ata Aidoo: Our Sister Killjoy." Postcolonial Web. 1/18/24. <https://www.postcolonialweb.org/africa/ghana/aidoo/killjoy1.html>.
  • Behrent, Megan. "Our Sister Killjoy: Characterizing Immigration/Emigration." Postcolonial Web. 1/18/24. <https://www.postcolonialweb.org/africa/ghana/aidoo/killjoy2.html>.
  • Behrent, Megan . "Our Sister Killjoy: Critiquing Nationalism." Postcolonial Web . 1/18/24. <https://www.postcolonialweb.org/africa/ghana/aidoo/killjoy3.html>.
  • Wilentz, Gay. "The Politics of Exile: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy." New Prairie Press. 1/18/24. <https://newprairiepress.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://en.wikipedia.org/&httpsredir=1&article=1271&context=sttcl>.
  • "Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972)." Black Past. 1/18/24. <https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/nkrumah-kwame-1909-1972/>.
  • " Nkrumah, Kwame." Stanford University. 1/18/24. <https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/nkrumah-kwame>.
  • " Kwame Nkrumah's Vision of Africa." BBC. 1/18/24. <https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/highlights/000914_nkrumah.shtml>.
  • "They don’t tell us about Nkrumah." Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. 1/18/24. <https://annenberg.usc.edu/news/spotlight/they-dont-tell-us-about-nkrumah>.
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