Dɔɔ bee pɔge bee dɔgebo | pɔge |
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Dɔgebo paaloŋ | Ghana |
Name in native language | Ama Ata Aidoo |
Yo-ennaa bee yoporaa | Ama |
Family name | Aidoo |
Dɔgebo bebiri | 23 Maakye 1942 |
Dɔgebo zie | Abeadzi Kyiakor |
Kūū bebiri | 31 Mɛrnoɔre 2023 |
Place of death | Accra |
Manner of death | natural causes |
Cause of death | disease |
Native language | Fante |
Kɔkɔyelii, sɛge ne bee goligoluu | Bɔrefɔ, Fante |
Tonnoɔre | poet, novelist, playwright, Pɔleteesa |
Field of work | poetry, drama, fiction literature |
Employer | Brown University |
Voaraa | Minister for Education |
Zanne la | Wesley Girls' Senior High School, University of Ghana |
Work location | Zimbabwe |
Work period (start) | 1964 |
Politikal paati mɛmba | Provisional National Defence Council |
Award received | Commonwealth Writers' Prize |
Personal pronoun | L484 |
Ama Ata Aidoo (23 Maakye 1942 – 31 Mɛnoɔre 2023)[1] da e la Ghana sɛgesɛgerɛ, yelwiiri gɔbaa, dēɛbaŋ sɛgerɛ, pɔleteesa, ane ganzanna.[2][3] O da e la gansɛgerɛ ko ganzanne Ghana poɔ a yi 1982 te tɔ 1983, Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration eŋɛ. O dēɛbaŋ fɔrɔ, The Dilemma of a Ghost, da yi la gbaŋgbale 1965 poɔ, naŋ e ka Aidoo e African pɔge fɔrɔ deɛbaŋ gɔbaa naŋ yineŋ o toma gbaŋgbale.[4] O naŋ e yelkããsɛgerɛ, o die a Commonwealth Writers' Prize 1992 poɔ ne a yelkããsɛgeraa Changes. 2000 poɔ, o da mɛɛ a Mbaasem Foundation Accra poɔ na zɛge ane teɛ African pɔge-sɛgereba toma.[5]
Ba dɔge la Christina Ama Ata Aidoo 23 Maakye 1942[6] eŋɛ Abeadzi Kyiakor, naŋ peɛle Saltpond, a Central Irigyiŋ poɔ, Ghana. Yelpeɛre yiziiri mine ([7]a poɔ Megan Behrent, Brown University, ane Africa Who's Who) yeli ka ba da dɔge o la 31 Maakye.[8][9] O taa la weɛle tɔ, Kwame Ata.[10][11]
Ba guoli la Aidoo Fante royal yiri poɔ, Nana Yaw Fama bipɔge, Abeadzi Kyiakor naa, ane Maame Abasema.[12] Nansaale peɛle naŋ da wa di wederoŋ te zu la da ko o sããkoma,[13][14] naŋ leɛre o saa hakela eŋ tɔna naŋ bebe o biiri ane a tɛŋa yideme wuluu kyaare yelkorɔ ane ana saŋa na yelerre. A ŋaaŋ la vɛŋ ka o yuo sakuuri fɔrɔ ba koraa poɔ a yeli yɛlɛ kyili Aidoo ka o gaa Wesley Girls' High School, zie onaŋ leɛre o teɛroŋ fɔrɔ ka o boɔrɔ la ka o e sɛgesɛgerɛ.[15]
A yi 1957, Aidoo gaa la Wesley Girls' Senior High School, Cape Coast poɔ.[16][17] Ona wa baare haae sakuuri, ka o de gaa University of Ghana, Legon, 1961 poɔ zie o naŋ nyɛ bakyila Arts degeree Bɔrefɔ poɔ, a sɛge o fɔrɔ deɛbaŋ, The Dilemma of a Ghost, 1964 poɔ.[2] Longman la da e ka a deɛne ŋa yi gbaŋgbale yuoni naŋ da tu, naŋ vɛŋ ka Aidoo e African deɛbaŋ gɔbaa pɔge fɔrɔ naŋ yi ne sɛgere gbaŋgbale.[4]
Aidoo kpie 31 Mɛnoɔre 2023 Accra poɔ. Ba naŋ pugiro o ka o e la "sɛgesɛgerɛ naŋ ba taa tɔ, neɛ naŋ zɔɔrɔ korɔ pɔgeba, zɔɔrɔ korɔ Africans ane noba naŋ melmelɛ ka ba gaa nimitɔɔre donɛɛ zaa wa tuori", yidaandɔɔ Nana Akufo-Addo da moɔle ka ba na koŋ o la state poɔ, ne kuori yeltuuri naŋ na e a yi 13 Gyoonoɔre te tɔ 16 Gyoonoɔre, 13 Gyoonoɔre eŋɛ, o kuori da eɛ a state die dendɔreŋ, kyɛ ka ba da de o gaa ne o yiri Abeadze Kyiakor te dɛlle 15 Gyoonoɔre, ane bareka puoroo misa nyããzie koseɛraa 16 Gyoonoɔre o ūūmu.
Aidoo nyɛ la kyɔɔtaare yaga, a poɔ onaŋ di a Mbari Club prize 1962 poɔ ko o selleŋmaa "No Sweetness Here", ane a 1992 Commonwealth Writers' Prize ko Best Book (Africa) ko o yelyagsɛgeraa Changes.
2012 poɔ, a volume Essays na eŋ Ama Ata Aidoo o yuomo 70 da yiee gbaŋgbale, Anne V. Adams la da e a maale eŋ, ne noba naŋ soŋ ka ba na la Atukwei Okai, Margaret Busby, Maryse Condé, Micere Mugo, Toyin Falola, Biodun Jeyifo, Kofi Anyidoho, Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, Naana Banyiwa Horne, Nana Wilson-Tagoe, Carole Boyce Davies, Emmanuel Akyeampong, James Gibbs, Vincent O. Odamtten, Jane Bryce, Esi Sutherland-Addy, Femi Osofisan, Kwesi Yankah, Abena Busia, Yaba Badoe, Ivor Agyeman-Duah, Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Kinna Likimani, ane bamine.
Aidoo da la a 2014 documentary film yelzu, The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo, Yaba Badoe naŋ maale.
The Dilemma of a Ghost (play), Accra: Longman, 1965. New York: Macmillan,
Anowa (play based on a Ghanaian legend), London: Longman, 1970. New York: Humanities Press, 1970.
No Sweetness Here: A Collection of Short Stories, London: Longman, 1970. New York: Doubleday.
Our Sister Killjoy: or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint (novel), Longman, 1977.
Someone Talking to Sometime (poetry collection), Harare: College Press, 1986.
The Eagle and the Chickens and Other Stories (for children), Enugu: Tana Press, 1986.
Birds and Other Poems, Harare: College Press, 1987.
An Angry Letter in January (poems), Coventry: Dangaroo Press, 1992, ISSN 0106-5734
Changes: A Love Story (novel), London: The Women's Press, 1991. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1993.
The Girl Who Can and Other Stories, Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, ISBN 978-0435910136; Heinemann African Writers Series, 1997.
Diplomatic Pounds & Other Stories, Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-0956240194.
O naŋ e maale enna
African Love Stories: An Anthology, Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2006. ISBN 978-0-9547023-6-6.
O puori yɛlɛ
Kyɛlkyɛ
Zipeɛre yaga tere la 1942 ka o e o dɔgebo bebiri.