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Ama Ata Aidoo

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Ghanaian author and poet

WritersLived 1942 to 2023 · aged 81
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Ama Ata Aidoo was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. She was the Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration.

Also inDeutsch

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Awards 3

1987Nelson Mandela Prize
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
The Mbari Club

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About this person

Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1942 to 2023 · aged 81
Written about in
29 languages

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