
The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa
1987
First Published
3.72
Average Rating
124
Number of Pages
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
Avg Rating
3.72
Number of Ratings
572
5 STARS
24%
4 STARS
36%
3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
2%
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Author

Ama Ata Aidoo
Author · 6 books
Ama Ata Aidoo was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. She was Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings' 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. (from Wikipedia)