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The discourse of sweetness in Ama Ata Aidoo's No Sweetness Here.
Studies in Short Fiction; 3/22/1995; MacKenzie, Clayton G.; 787 words
; ... Did Not Change, the second story in Ama Ata Aidoo's collection No Sweetness Here, a ... in smoke and heads full of women. (Aidoo 22) The image of soil and regrowth ... African writers are not shared by Aidoo. Her preoccupation with land and ...
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Rethinking the Specter: Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa.
Mosaic (Winnipeg); 12/1/2001; Karavanta, Assimina; 787 words
; ... postcolonial occasion in view of Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa, and I do so in order to ... discussed. Written in the 1970s by Ama Ata Aidoo, a Ghanaian woman writer and scholar ... chapter on Anowa, she points out that Aidoo's play has been marginalized by what ...
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Changes: A Love Story.
The Women's Review of Books; 11/1/1994; Gardner, Susan; 787 words
; AMA ATA AIDOO and Buchi Emecheta, despite their different nationalities (Aidoo is from Ghana, Emecheta from Nigeria) have ... 1946, divorced, has four living children; Aidoo, a few years older, widowed with one daughter ...
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Kehinde.
The Women's Review of Books; 11/1/1994; Gardner, Susan; 787 words
; AMA ATA AIDOO AND Buchi Emecheta, despite their different nationalities (Aidoo is from Ghana, Emecheta from Nigeria) have ... 1946, divorced, has four living children; Aidoo, a few years older, widowed with one daughter ...
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Appointments, Tenure Decisions, and Promotions of African Americans in Higher Education
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education; 1/1/2004; Anonymous; 787 words
; Ama Ata Aidoo has spent the fall semester as visiting professor of Africana studies at Brown University. A distinguished novelist and play-wright from Ghana, Aidoo will teach a one semester-long course each fall for the next five years ...
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Books: Over the rainbow South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami Harvill, pounds 9.99, 192pp: Aamer Hussein finds a fairy-tale at the end of a Japanese dream
The Independent - London; 8/14/1999; Aamer Hussein; 504 words
; IF WE are looking for something, writes Ama Ata Aidoo in a recent story, we may as well start from where we know best - if we don't find it right there, we can feel free to roam the ...
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An African Education in 'No Sweetness Here'
NPR All Things Considered; 1/18/2008; MELISSA BLOCK; 545 words
; ... that's called "No Sweetness Here" by Ama Ata Aidoo. Ms. CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE ... stories by the Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo called "No Sweetness Here." These ... stories called "No Sweetness Here" by Ama Ata Aidoo. You can find an excerpt from ...
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African Theatre Women.(Book Review)
African Studies Quarterly; 3/22/2005; Chanda, Ipshita; 787 words
; ... African theatre (xi), by going beyond theatrewomen like Ama Ata Aidoo, Efua Sutherland, Fatima Dike, Zulu Sofola and Tess Onwueme ... Efua Sutherland's protege and co-worker, actress Adeline Ama Buabeng by Sutherland-Addy (66-82). Buabeng recreates ...
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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).
Black Issues in Higher Education; 7/31/2003; Smiles, Robin V.; 787 words
; ... playwright and women's rights advocate, Ama Ata Aidoo, confessed that even she has had trouble with Morrison. Aidoo, who has written several novels herself ... in the normal chaos of our lives, Aidoo says. They seem to be saying, 'I ...
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Madness in black women's writing. Reflections from four texts: a question of Power, the joys of Motherhood, Anowa and possessing the secret of joy.
Ahfad Journal; 6/1/2002; Osaki, Lillian Temu; 787 words
; ... Power , Buchi Emecheta's The joys of Motherhood , Ama Ataa Aidoo's Anowa and Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of ... of African American women's writings. Bessie Head, Ama Ata Aidoo, Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker are among the African ...
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