Religion and religious practices interfere with education t… - Ama Ata Aidoo

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Religion and religious practices interfere with education to a large extent. Remuneration and other support is poor in state-sponsored schools. The boarding school system is a major problem in senior high schools. No education system in an advanced country centres its secondary education on boarding. They brought it from England, the colonial masters. Those public boarding schools are all completely private in England today. The state schools are day schools. How can you have the teenage children of an entire country housed in boarding schools? Unless we do something about that, there will be no significant improvement in the country’s education system.

Ama Ata Aidoo

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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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