Ama Ata Aidoo

Ama Ata Aidoo

Ama Ata Aidoo was born in 1942 and died in 2023., Ama Ata Aidoo has written at least 12 books. Their most popular book is Changes: A Love Story with 18 saves with an average rating of 3.5⭐.

They are best known for writing in the genres Fiction, Classics, and Women.

emotional and reflective are their most common moods.

Author Bio

Ama Ata Aidoo was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. She was Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration. Her first play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, was published in 1965, making Aidoo the first published female African dramatist. As a novelist, she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1992 with the novel Changes. In 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation in Accra to promote and support the work of African women writers.