Ghanaian Writer Prof Ama Ata Aidoo is dead at 81

Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academic, Professor Ama Ata Aidoo is dead at age 81.

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Her family has confirmed that she passed away on Wednesday morning, May 31, 2023, after a career spanning more than five decades.

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Ama Ata Aidoo with deep sorrow but in the hope of the resurrection, informs the general public that our beloved relative and writer passed away in the early hours of this morning Wednesday 31st May 2023, after a short illness.

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The Family requests privacy at this difficult moment,” the family head Kwamena Essandoh Aidoo announced in a short statement.

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Prof Ama Ata Aidoo received international recognition as one of the most prominent African writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Aidoo started writing seriously

A Ghanaian student returning home pulls his African American wife into the traditional lifestyle and the extended family that he now finds constrictive, like in the problem play The Dilemma of a Ghost (1965), which earned her early fame