My regret is that we Ghanaian girls are not using the freedom we have inherited, and men are now moving in to colonise us. - Ama Ata Aidoo

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My regret is that we Ghanaian girls are not using the freedom we have inherited, and men are now moving in to colonise us.

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About Ama Ata Aidoo

Christina Ama Ata Aidoo (March 23, 1942–May 31, 2023) was 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. As a novelist, she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1992 with the novel Changes. In 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation in Accra to promote and support the work of African women writers.

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Alternative Names: Christina Ama Aidoo Ama Christina Ata Aidoo Ama-Attah Aidoo Christian Ama Aidoo Ama Christian Ata Aidoo Christina Ama Ata Aidoo
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Yes, I agree! Adult education in our environment is a very necessary complement for education. Adult education as an institution has to be re-energised and reorganised by reminding the public of its importance. In a society like ours with so many adults literally having had no formal education, adult education should be dynamic so that it helps fill some of these gaps. The fact that adult education seems to have declined so drastically is also a symptom of what has happened to us as a people and as a country, both in terms of education itself and in the application of knowledge generally.

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