Which concerned the problem of conflict between traditional culture and Relationship with the West and the rest of the world,' she has said.Īfter rejecting identification as feminist, Aidoo amemded her position It clear that the African man alone isn't able to cope with out Her stories focus on the role of women in the process of change. 'Daughter of my Mother and my / Father's Orphan, / what is to become of Slave trade, the impact of neo-colonialism on the Educated GhanaianĮlite, and the notion of exile and African diasporic identity.Įxploring her own past, Aidoo wrote in the poem 'Homesickness': She won the prize and bought with the money a pairĪidoo's work falls into various genres: fiction, drama, poetry,Įssays, letters and criticism. She had written and submitted to a short story contest organized by a Her first story was 'Unto Us a Child Is Born,' that Writing poetry had been already herĬhildhood's dream. Publish poetry, and began to work with Efua Sutherland,įounder of the Ghana Drama Studio. Her father was also an advocate of WesternĮducation and sent her to Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast.ġ964 Aidoo graduated from the University of Ghana in Legon, where she Because of herįather's position, Aidoo grew up in a royal household with a clear Her father was a chief of Abeadzi Kyakor, a political individual, asĪidoo's grandfather who was killed by the British. And I don't mean to be rude to you orĪnything, but who has that kind of time?'' (from Our Sister Killjoy, 1977)Īma Ata Aidoo was born in Abeadzi Kyiakor, Gold Coast, now Ghana.

That, I shall have to speak every day, twenty-four hours a day, for at Have to tell you a detailed history of the African continent. Professor, 'to give you the decent answer your anxiety demands, I would In a distinct African identity, which she sees from a female Return to home for the benefit of their own communities. They internalize the ideologies of the colonizer and eventually fail to She has criticized thoseĮducated Africans who profess to love their country but are lured awayīy the material benefits of the developed word educated in the West, Leaders as a tool to keep people oppressed. Which won the 1993 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Africa region.Īidoo has noted that the idea of nationalism has been used by new Her acclaimed prose works include No Sweets Here (1970), a collection of short stories, the semi-autobiographical novel Our Sister Killjoy (1979), and Changes (1991), Ghanaian writer, who has depicted the role of African woman in modern society.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĪma Ata Aidoo (b.

Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo