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Ama Ata Aidoo

Died in 2023

Ama Ata Aidoo was born in 1942 in Abeadzi Kyiakor, into a family of Fanti chiefs. She entered Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast in 1957, then studied English at the University of Ghana, and afterwards taught at universities in Africa and the United States. Appointed Minister of Education in 1982, she resigned shortly afterwards and settled in Zimbabwe, where she worked for the Ministry of Education. She published her first novel in 1977 and died in Accra on 31 May 2023.

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