Full name Christina Ama Ata Aidoo, (born March 23, 1942, Abeadzi Kyiakor, near Saltpond, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died May 31, 2023), Ghanaian writer whose work, written in English, emphasized the paradoxical position of the modern African woman. 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.
Ama Ata Aidoo’s iconic 1987 interview that shook the world
