 "Shields Gazette (South Shields, England)")
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THE DANGERS WITHIN - SMOKERS UNAWARE OF POISONS.
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SMOKERS are completely oblivious to the number of poisons they are putting in their body, a study has shown.
Cigarette smoke contains some 4,000 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer, but three quarters of people in the north east were only able to name nicotine and tar, which are listed on packets.
Even when given a list of poisons to choose from, two in five people were unable to identify a single one.
A campaign has now been launched by Cancer Research UK, which carried out the survey, to make people aware of the dangers.
Steve Lovell, public health ...
 "Mosaic (Winnipeg)")
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Rethinking the Specter: Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa.
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
; ...postcolonial occasion in view of Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa, and I do so in order...rather, a focus on certain aspects of Aidoo's Anowa, which, unlike Our Sister...discussed. Written in the 1970s by Ama Ata Aidoo, a Ghanaian woman writer and scholar...
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Changes: A Love Story.
Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books
; AMA ATA AIDOO and Buchi Emecheta, despite their different nationalities (Aidoo is from Ghana, Emecheta from Nigeria...divorced, has four living children; Aidoo, a few years older, widowed with one daughter...
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African writer takes on 5-year professorship at Brown U.
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Ama Ata Aidoo arrived at Brown University nearly...taught before at the University, Aidoo has just begun a position as visiting...might seem a far cry from Cape Town, Aidoo is not entirely new to Brown. In...
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Kehinde.
Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books
; AMA ATA AIDOO AND Buchi Emecheta, despite their different nationalities (Aidoo is from Ghana, Emecheta from Nigeria...divorced, has four living children; Aidoo, a few years older, widowed with one daughter...
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An African Education in 'No Sweetness Here'
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...called "No Sweetness Here" by Ama Ata Aidoo. Ms. CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE...stories by the Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo called "No Sweetness Here...called "No Sweetness Here" by Ama Ata Aidoo. You can find an excerpt from...
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Four-day International Writers' Conference begins at Pitt today. (Pittsburgh)
PR Newswire
; ...Dramatic readings by playwright Ama Ata Aidoo, Micere Githae-Mugo and others...International and a discussion by Ama Ata Aidoo, Micere Githae-Mugo and Buchi...m.: Special performance of Ama Ata Aidoo's play The Dilemma of a Ghost...
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The Girl Who Can. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: African Business
; THE GIRL WHO CAN BY AMA ATA AIDOO [pounds sterling]6.70 African...he describes the Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo's "short masterpiece" Our Sister...again. In a distinguished career, Ama Ata Aidoo won the Nelson Mandela Prize for...
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African Love Stories: An anthology.(Book review)
Magazine article from: African Business
; ...Stories An anthology Edited by Ama Ata Aidoo [pounds sterling]10.99 Ayebia...African Business Aug/Sept '07). Ama Ata Aidoo, who edited this anthology, was...writer of children's stories. Ama Ata Aidoo's many awards include the Nelson...
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Essays on African Writing 2: Contemporary Literature.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; ...Ghanaian writers Ayi Kwei Armah and Ama Ata Aidoo focuses on the response of these...thrust of Armah's novels to that of Aidoo's plays, Innes finds the two authors...in Armah's oeuvre is absent in Aidoo's, whereas the feminist subtheme...
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Moving Morrison beyond the literary classroom: Toni Morrison Society celebrates 10 years, encourages readers of all ages to know the author. (Noteworthy News).
Magazine article from: Black Issues in Higher Education
; ...playwright and women's rights advocate, Ama Ata Aidoo, confessed that even she has had "trouble" with Morrison. Aidoo, who has written several novels...the normal chaos of our lives," Aidoo says. "They seem to be saying...
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