Ama Ata Aidoo is een Ghanese auteur, dichter, toneelschrijver en academicus wiens werk zich verdiept in de complexiteit van het Afrikaanse leven en de identiteit. Haar geschriften onderzoeken vaak de blijvende impact van kolonialisme en de daaropvolgende zoektocht naar zelfbeschikking en culturele authenticiteit. Aidoo verdedigt de veerkracht en de geest van Afrikaanse vrouwen, waarbij ze haar verhalen doordrenkt met een krachtig gevoel van belangenbehartiging en een toewijding om gemarginaliseerde stemmen te versterken. Door haar kenmerkende proza biedt ze diepgaand sociaal commentaar en viert ze de rijkdom van het Afrikaanse erfgoed.
Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues.
In this collection of short stories, Aidoo elevates the mundane in women's lives to an intellectual level in an attempt at challenging patriarchal structures and dominance in African society. schovat popis
Eine Liebesgeschichte, die gegen alle gesellschaftlichen Konventionen verstößt: Esi, eine junge, gutaussehende Akademikerin, liebt ihren Job, ihre Karriere, ihre Privilegien. Sie verläßt ihren Mann, weil sie sich eingeengt fühlt, verliebt sich in den verheirateten Ali, der attraktiv und wohlhabend ist und ihr Freiräume gewährt. Er genießt offensichtlich diese Situation, aber hat Esi wirklich erreicht, was sie sich von einer Beziehung erträumte? Die sich emanzipierende Großstädterin steht plötzlich einer ganzen Reihe von Problemen gegenüber, für die auch Frauen andernorts keine einfachen Lösungen parat haben.
Aidoo's first novel explores the thoughts and experiences of a Ghanaian girl on her travels in Europe
Two dramas depict the stories of a man who returns to his native Ghana with his sophisticated American wife, and a young woman who marries the man she loves, against her parents' wishes
In this text, the author invites the reader to confront life as it is and to rise to the challenge of injustice and ignorance in post-colonial Ghana.
A Commonwealth Prize–winning novel of “intense power . . . examining the role of women in modern African society” by the acclaimed Ghanaian author ( Publishers Weekly ).Living in Ghana’s capital city of Accra with a postgraduate degree and a career in data analysis, Esi Sekyi is a thoroughly modern African woman. Perhaps that is why she decides to divorce her husband after enduring yet another morning’s marital rape. Though her friends and family are baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn’t beat her!), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man—wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage—the modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems.Witty and compelling, Aidoo’s novel, according to Manthia Diawara, “inaugurates a new realist style in African literature.” In an afterword to this edition, Tuzyline Jita Allan “places Aidoo’s work in a historical context and helps introduce this remarkable writer [who] sheds light on women’s problems around the globe” ( Publishers Weekly ).