AMA ATA AIDOO

Biography

Ama Ata Aidoo is long term Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Creative Writing. A noted West African novelist and playwright who focus on issues of gender on African society. She is the author of several plays, short stories and novels. Professor Aidoo teaches courses on African literature as well as on gender in African society.

A graduate from the University of Ghana, Legon, Ama Ata Aidoo has served as a Fellow of the Advanced Creative Writing Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA; and during the early 1980s, as Minister of Education (Ghana). At various times during her career, Ama Ata Aidoo has lectured in the Department of English at the University of Cape Coast; and has served on the Board of Directors of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, the Artis Council of Ghana and the Ghana Medical and Dental Council.

AMA ATA AIDOO
Visiting Professor of Africana Studies
Africana Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 3137
E-mail: Ama_Ata_Aidoo@brown.edu

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