One of Africa’s most celebrated authors and playwrights, Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo, has died aged 81.
A renowned feminist, she depicted and celebrated the condition of African women in works such as The Dilemma of a Ghost, Our Sister Killjoy and Changes.
She opposed what she described as a “western perception that the African female is a downtrodden wretch.”
She also served as education minister in the early 1980s, but resigned when she could not make education free.
-BBC
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