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Ama Ata Aidoo - Author

Ama Ata Aidoo - Author

The Interview vor 12 Jahren

How much is there really to celebrate about being female in Africa?

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Hardtalk speaks to the acclaimed Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo
who has arguably done more than any other writer to depict and
celebrate the condition of women in Africa, in books such as The
Dilemma of a Ghost, and Changes. She is opposed to what she has
described as a 'Western perception that the African female is a
downtrodden wretch'. But when you look around the African
continent today - girls abducted in Nigeria, polygamy
reintroduced in Kenya, child marriages and the prevalence of
gender based violence, how much is there really to celebrate
about being female in Africa?

(Photo: Ama Ata Aidoo)