The Girl Who Can. (Reviews).

African Business | June 1, 2003 | Copyright

THE GIRL WHO CAN

BY AMA ATA AIDOO

[pounds sterling]6.70 African Writers Series

ISBN 0-435-91013-2

In Chinua Achebe's book Home and Exile, he describes the Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo's "short masterpiece" Our Sister Killjoy as "brilliant". He praised the fine prose and muscular poetry she used to tell the story of a bright young woman, recently graduated from university in Ghana and selected for a short fellowship in Germany. When her course ends she finds herself drawn - in spite of her rebellious political self - to London that Ghana ...

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