But what she also came to know was that someone somewhere w… - Ama Ata Aidoo

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But what she also came to know was that someone somewhere would always see in any kind of difference, an excuse to be mean.

Ama Ata Aidoo

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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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But what she also came to know was that someone somewhere would always see in any kind of difference, an excuse to be mean. - Ama Ata Aidoo

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