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Section
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Index of Poets
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Index of Poets
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Poet Name
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Aidoo, Ama Ata
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Christina
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Given name
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Ama Ata
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Last Name
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Aidoo
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Gender
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Female
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Date of Birth
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23 March 1942
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Place of Birth (country)
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West Africa
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Selected Works
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Poems
On Reading Jackie Kay
For a Zulu in the Bayous
Of Gifts and References
Speeches, Lectures, Interviews, Performances / Critical Articles, Media
Adams, Anne V. (ed.). Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70: A Reader in African Cultural Studies. Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2012.
Allen, Nafeesh. "Negotiating with the Diaspora: an Interview with Ama Ata Aidoo," Scholar & Feminist Online, 2009.
"Ama Ata Aidoo in discussion about her play The Dilemma of a Ghost, interviewed by Michael Walling, July, 19, 2006, Accra, Ghana."
"Ama Ata Aidoo on feminism in Africa—BBC HARDtalk." BBC HARDtalk, July, 22, 2014.
"Ama Ata Aidoo’s humorous speech at launch of Centre for Creative Writing." GhanaWeb TV, March 16, 2017.
"An Audience with Ama Ata Aidoo at the Royal African Society’s annual literature festival.” Ama Ata Aidoo in conversation with Wangui wa Goro, The Royal African Society, July 14, 2014.
Azodo, Ada Uzoamaka and G. Wilentz, Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo, Africa Research & Publications, 1999.
Badoe, Yaba (dir.). The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo (2014), film.
Kamata, Suzanne. “A Profile of Ama Ata Aidoo.” Literary Mama, Feb. 2016.
Misra, Aditya. "Death in Surprise: Gender and Power Dynamics in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa." Journal of Drama Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2012, pp. 81–91.
Odamtten, Vincent O. The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo: Polylectics and Reading Against Neocolonialism. University Press of Florida, 1994.
Pujolràs-Noguer, Esther. An African (Auto)biography. Ama Ata Aidoo's Literary Quest: Strangeness, nation and tradition, Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012.
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Poetry Collections
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Someone Talking to Sometime (Harare: College Press, 1986);
Birds and Other Poems (Harare: College Press, 1987);
An Angry Letter in January and Other Poems (Dangaroo Press, 1992);
After the Ceremonies: New and Selected Poems (University of Nebraska Press, 2017)
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Number
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37