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Ama Ata Aidoo - Author

Duration: 24 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News ChannelLatest broadcast: on BBC News Asia Pacific

Available for 6 months

Another chance to watch Zeinab Badawi’s 2014 interview with acclaimed Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo, who has died aged 81. A former education minister, she arguably did more than any other writer to depict and celebrate the condition of women in Africa and was opposed to what she described as a 'western perception that the African female is a downtrodden wretch'. Show less

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Interviewer:
Zeinab Badawi
Interviewed Guest:
Ama Ata Aidoo

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