1987 video of Ama Ata Aidoo -- legendary African woman author from Ghana

[@OralOfori]

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[@goodvibes9050]

Who's here after her going viral🙋🏽‍♀️

[@oralrohon8793]

Lol me had to look her up....how I didn't know about this great queen smh

[@goodvibes9050]

@@oralrohon8793 ikr I learned so much about her

[@goodvibes9050]

@Monica Sanchez it's funny how it's from 1987

[@m.mathis114]

Me.

[@wiltuhoward8164]

Good Vibes me

[@takyidarko7533]

The government of Ghana should honor this woman before her death.

[@alvinmitchell1412]

Ghana 🇬🇭 women not only Beautiful but all are smart too kudos to y’all

[@austinomo8391]

Yeah you are right but you knw we humans never honor any1 untill they dead SMH

[@takyidarko7533]

austin omo,who told you,have you forgotten that in every year the government honored distinguished senior citizens who have contributed immensely for the development of the country.

[@resilience4lyfe331]

Takyi Darko when because I want to greet her.. I’d come just for that

[@LGMI9]

Ohhh my God,this woman is an asset to the African History...

[@adwoaaffum4404]

BB TV Beatrice she is just in love with her❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹

[@nanakwame6532]

You can never build your life by saying thanks every morning. Proud of you professor Ama Ata Aidoo

[@demetriusbryson1706]

She’s A Precious Treasure, I’m going to be a fan of her from here on out...I must purchase her books 📚 ASAP

[@vibesbynae4860]

Let’s hope the profits return to her family rightfully so in God’s grace 😭💕

[@wangadlali9462]

I'm a huge fan just by watching this....ive been on the internet.... reading about her 💥💥

[@richfratello8181]

One thing that stood out in this video for me is her belief. She resigned from the post of a minister of education in the Rowling's govt after eight months only because of her belief. Meaning, she's a woman of her word indeed. Most women wouldn't resign being the first female minister. But in her case she did resign after realizing that she wasn't going to change anything. Very very principled individual and I love it. I wished we had ten of hers, Africa would be somewhere by this century. Bravissima signora!!!

[@adwoagyamfua1044]

We are so proud of you Mummy🇬🇭❤️🔥✌🏾

[@tasheikapatterson8900]

Ama Ata Aidoo is phenomenal sending love from Jamaica

[@orifi1121]

Thankx for men like you who sit down dedicate their time so we can know our history, i notice it's only been 21 hours since this video uploaded.

[@OralOfori]

Thanks for men like you who notice hard work and appreciate it. You are our motivation. Kindly share it...

[@CetribeaBurundibwiza-tz5le]

How can we get her books??

[@CetribeaBurundibwiza-tz5le]

@@OralOfori we need to find more of her interviews

[@TheTempah12]

Orifi never seen a better comment. You’re so right.

[@tsehsybefkadu2889]

Thank you brother to publish the full interview still it has meaning for all black peoples.

[@abioladawd1707]

Motherhood appreciates you❤👍👏

[@monalisawm]

I've been watching this Amazing African legend she is soooo great. I thought what if she was the president of Ghana can you imagine that!!!! 🖤🌍👏🏾👏🏾🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇰🇪🇰🇪🇸🇳🇹🇿🇸🇸🇧🇼🇨🇩🌍🌍🌍🌍🖤🖤🖤

[@sojournertrust7796]

Amen to that. It started with the mindset of her wise father. Ama Ata Aidoo was wise before her age. In many ways she is a source of inspiration! Her explanation (21:20 - 24:35) of the Western World is powerful and without apologizing for choosing her words. And also the role that blacks in general have played afterwards or still do!!🤔🧐

[@abdeenn3]

I , as a foreigner from SE Asia, really respect Ama Ata Aidoo after listening to her extremely intelligent mind. Thank you so much Ama ! Africa needs more lady like you 🙏

[@desiatheron3881]

What an awesome woman! A hidden treasure!

[@mayrayment8551]

She is amazing, love her! Such a role model for black women .

[@lifestyle23430]

I love this woman

[@emmanuelagbevey2538]

Beautiful African queen..I like the way she speak and explain and expresse everything she's talking....Congratulations...proud of you..🥰👌😍❤

[@bkobi34]

I like the "Quote" very nice. If only a few AFRICAN WOMEN could ARISE LIKE MAAMA AMA.....AFRICANS LETS RISE UP🤝🏿🤝🏿🤝🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

[@missbritt288]

Ghana had many powerful thinkers that had so many hopes which would lay the groundwork for pan africanism .... good people

[@maryambrahim82]

so true!

[@hodgemoss]

Refreshing! A breath of fresh air.

[@forcesoil613]

To sit in and witness (mama) is such a great blessing. 🌹

[@anaafipriscilla]

Africa let's Wake up

[@feman8816]

anaafi priscilla THEY ARE WOKE & FLEEING TO EUROPE & AMERICA.

[@godjewlz1381]

Where can I purchase her books???? I seen her face and got goose bumps instantly!!!!! SHE’S MY SHERO, MY STRENGTH AND MY INSPIRATION 😘❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@shikowambui6529]

I met this woman at the Ghana trade fair center in 2004

[@annabelle3307]

I applaud her but especially her Father to see the precious support of encouragement. I wished my father would have done so I could’ve imagine who and what I could be if a lot of girls who need the support of their father. God bless her and bless her father.

[@kofirey6752]

Ama you are very wise well Akon spoken writer. "MUCH LOVE"

[@anthonyotchere6346]

An illustrious daughter of Africa who always stood for the liberation of Africa. Unfortunately our wicked, silly and sycophants leaders who are responsible for our predicaments. Ayeeko Obaatan pa.

[@ruutz1]

"The Dilemma of a Ghost?".🤗 In the June 4th revolutionary period with it's subsequent curfews, this book book became literally my first love and I was only a pre-teen. I read it soooo many times with such rapt attention that I would lose awareness of anything around me. When I saw her in person in 1982, it felt like I'd seen God. What an absolute LEGEND. Ah, Ogyakrom needs to honour Ama Ata Aidoo ASAP.

[@Thuggerixixix]

Please tell me more of her book I need to read please

[@peaceantwi65]

I can't imagine her boldness .she is realy realy blessed.

[@goldbonsu4448]

Never knew so much about her but am so proud to know her now

[@obenggyima1238]

A great lady

[@jadew9177]

Shes seems like a great person to be around

[@junemuch5650]

🇬🇭 & 🇿🇼 I didn’t even know this!! Africa come on!!

[@godjewlz1381]

Mama Africa🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@blacknight5107]

blessing from the caribbean

[@trudy227]

I want to shake hands 🤚 , give her a big hug 🤗 and spend a good quality day with this amazing woman 👩 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾♥️❤️where is she?????

[@OralOfori]

There's a link to a website for her in video description...

[@yaafowaa4149]

She's in Ghana

[@isaacquaidoo3099]

Ghana

[@haibeim7582]

She’s one the best . Love her.

[@markl.mobley6365]

Ata Aidoo 👉🌹A rose you are Ma'am. Thank you.

[@patrickagyei6547]

As a pan Africanist,my spirit is rekindled.Happy to be a Ghanaian.

[@sophiezakaria]

Born 1942, and she still looks young and energetic

[@oschaerosemary5392]

Mama!!!! you are a power house

[@m.c.1387]

What a wonderful lesson! I must follow her!!

[@tra.christie3146]

Beautiful Mother. Respect Queen.

[@salifsambare7379]

Respect maman 👨‍💻

[@muctarrwilliams7776]

A well grounded woman with a sense of purpose on history and an acumen of smart Cultural civics about world issues. She shows the truth is a bitter pill to swallow its sad. Thats why I said blessed are the women they like God created a wonderful world of 7 billion beautiful people. God bless them all.

[@chineduifeji9774]

She is amazing

[@Thestarte]

Africa used to have bunch of respectful youth but unfortunately everything changed with these westerners so called civilization...

[@porshabank1997]

This woman is 78 oh my god she don't age at all

[@owinjeandrewmicheal8904]

Porsha Bank. That is part of God given blessing on Many black African People. ....

[@porshabank1997]

@@owinjeandrewmicheal8904 true

[@mekawoods5102]

BLACK doesn't crack! 💯

[@godjewlz1381]

She’s a Gem 💎 INA REAL LIFE🙌🏾

[@blessgoddess4186]

That's that MELANIN POPPING.... WE ARE WONDERFUL MADE... NO OTHER RACE IS MADE LIKE US

[@nanakboadu5206]

Thank you Ama for let Ghana be one of the greatest country in the world.NanaBoadu NY USA thanks again

[@lugardboy]

Legend Focus: *Ama Ata Aidoo* Ama Ata Aidoo née *Christina Ama Aidoo* is a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academic. She was born on March 23, 1942 in Saltpond in the Central Region of Ghana. She had a twin brother, *Kwame Ata.* She was raised in a Fante royal household, the daughter of *Nana Yaw Fama*, Chief of Abeadzi Kyiakor, and *Maame Abasema.* She grew up at a time of resurgent British neocolonialism that was taking place in her homeland. Her grandfather was murdered by *neocolonialists,* which brought her father's attention to the importance of *educating the children and families* of the village on the history and events of the era. This led him to open up the first school in their village and influenced *Ama Ata Aidoo* to attend Wesley Girls' High School, where she first decided she wanted to be a *writer.* *Ama Ata Aidoo* attended Wesley Girls' Senior High School in Cape Coast, from 1961 to 1964. After high school, she enrolled at the University of Ghana, Legon where she obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English and also wrote her first play, *"The Dilemma of a Ghost,"* in 1964. The play was published by Longman the following year, making *Ama Ata Aidoo* the first published African woman dramatist. *Ama* was appointed Minister of Education under the Provisional National Defence Council in 1982. She resigned after 18 months, realising that she would be unable to achieve her aim of *making education in Ghana freely accessible to all.* She has portrayed the role of African women in contemporary society. She has opined that the *idea of nationalism* has been deployed by recent leaders as a means of keeping people oppressed. She has criticized those *literate Africans* who profess to love their country but are seduced away by the benefits of the developed world. She believes in a *distinct African identity*, which she views from a female perspective. She worked in the United States, where she held a fellowship in *creative writing* at Stanford University, California. She also served as a *research fellow* at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, and as a *lecturer* in English at the University of Cape Coast, eventually rising there to the position of *professor.* She has also spent a great deal of time *teaching* and living abroad for months at a time. She has lived in the United States, Britain, Germany and Zimbabwe. In London in 1986, she delivered the Walter Rodney Visions of Africa lecture organised by the support group for Bogle-L'Ouverture publishing house. *Ama* taught various English courses at Hamilton College in Clinton New York, in the early mid-1990s. She is currently a visiting professor in the *Africana Studies Department* at Brown University. *Ama Ata Aidoo* was a patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature (alongside Dele Olojede, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Margaret Busby, Sarah Ladipo Manyika and Zakes Mda), created in 2013 as a platform for *African writers* of debut books of fiction. She obtained a Fulbright Scholarship award in 1988 and Mbari press short story prize. She is the subject of a 2014 documentary film, *"The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo,"* made by Yaba Badoe. Aidoo's plays include *The Dilemma of a Ghost,* produced at Legon in 1964 (first published 1965) and Pittsburgh in 1988, and *Anowa,* published in 1971 and produced in London in 1991. Her works of fiction particularly deal with the tension between Western and African world views. Her first novel, *Our Sister Killjoy,* was published in 1977 and remains one of her most popular works. Many of Aidoo's other protagonists are also *women* who defy the stereotypical women's roles of their time, as in her play *Anowa.* Her novel *Changes* won the 1992 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (Africa). She is also an accomplished poet-her collection *"Someone Talking to Sometime"* won the Nelson Mandela Prize for Poetry in 1987 and has written several children's books. She contributed the piece *"To Be a Woman"* to the 1984 anthology "Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology," edited by Robin Morgan. Her story *"Two Sisters"* appears in the 1992 anthology Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby. In 2000 she founded the *Mbaasem Foundation,* a non-governmental organization based in Ghana with a mission "to support the development and sustainability of African women writers and their artistic output", which she runs together with her daughter *Kinna Likimani* and a board of management. *Ama Ata Aidoo* is the editor of the 2006 anthology *"African Love Stories."* In 2012, she launched "Diplomatic Pounds & Other Stories", a compilation of short stories and another which is a collection of essays by renowned writers in Ghana, Africa and the African Diaspora. *Ama Ata Aidoo* has received several awards including the 1992 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (Africa) for her novel *Changes.* The *Aidoo-Snyder book prize,* awarded by the Women's Caucus of the African Studies Association for an outstanding book published by a woman that prioritizes *African women's experiences*, is named in honour of Ama Ata Aidoo and of Margaret C. Snyder, who was the founding director of UNIFEM. Launched in March 2017, the *Ama Ata Aidoo Centre for Creative Writing* (Aidoo Centre), under the auspices of the Kojo Yankah School of Communications Studies at the African University College of Communications (AUCC) in Adabraka, Accra, was named in her honour-the first centre of its kind in West Africa, with *Nii Ayikwei Parkes* as its director. Selected Works of Ama Ata Aidoo: 📚 The Dilemma of a Ghost (play), Accra: Longman, 1965. New York: Macmillan, 1971. 📚 Anowa (a play based on a Ghanaian legend), London: Longman, 1970. New York: Humanities Press, 1970. 📚 No Sweetness Here: A Collection of Short Stories, Longman, 1970 📚 Our Sister Killjoy: Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint (novel), Longman, 1977 📚 Someone Talking to Sometime (a poetry collection), Harare: College Press, 1986. 📚 The Eagle and the Chickens and Other Stories (for children), Tana Press, 1986. 📚 Birds and Other Poems, Harare: College Press, 1987 📚 An Angry Letter in January (poems), Dangaroo Press, 1992 📚 Changes: a Love Story (novel), The Women's Press, 1991 📚 The Girl Who Can and Other Stories, Heinemann African Writers Series, 1997 📚 Diplomatic Pounds & Other Stories, Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2012. As Editor: African Love Stories: An Anthology, African Love Stories: An Anthology, Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2006.

[@RuralmoneyOfficial]

Everything you are is us!

[@brap2985]

I feel like I can be a hero...thnx mama

[@eeedrisable]

Powerful !!!!

[@makepeace2850]

Queen.

[@merlbethel3030]

Wow so many Achievements.. salute to you my African sister🙏🏿

[@realtv8050]

We need her book she was amazing

[@tonderaithedogon]

Imagine being with a woman like this who is concerned about the right things not the trappings of capitalism.

[@solitaircloud2319]

I was blown away by that 1987 indepth interview.

[@SJ-cv4jk]

I read her book in Jhs 3. Anowa.

[@patndonjichivelachivela5584]

God bless you Maman she is a great inspiration 🙏 ❤

[@rv_thomas]

She is a very inspirant african woman❤️🔥✌🏾. I should purchase her books 📚 quickly ...

[@earthychild5258]

21:24 I feel too cry when I listen to this voice, you can feel the pains in her heart hmmmmm

[@FAFash-wo9yg]

Mind Blown by her wealth of knowledge! Wow! Thanks for sharing! I will definitely watch this again!

[@Gatwirimutuma]

Jus from listening burna boys song monsters you made and 23 ...and Ama Aidoo is born on the 23rd of March.🇰🇪❤️❤️❤️🙏🏾

[@teacherkaligodottonjige]

I appreciate her work

[@badouradavids5105]

really i feel sick to my stomach to think of OPPRESSION. MAY ALLAH BLESS AFRICA

[@rasinterpreter6480]

Thanks for the upload

[@OralOfori]

Thanks for sharing

[@rasinterpreter6480]

Oral Ofori thank you for sharing 🙏🏾

[@p.w.7493]

Continue to be the BLESSING God has made you to be, sis!! God BLESS you for He has given you knowledge and has allowed you to share this knowledge to EDUCATE and HELP others!! The DNA of your ancestors run DEEP in your blood, hence you represent them as you have done!! Continue to drop them TRUTH BOMBS you have been dropping!! Stay STRONG!!!💕💯

[@kevinthomas522]

She speaks incredible truth....obvious truth and hurtful truth....Yah bless her.

[@enitanh2734]

33 years later she is still right

[@OralOfori]

Thanks for sharing this video...

[@FreeBandz100Ms]

My grandma use to tell me stories too 🇬🇭

[@nikejajijaji-balogun7331]

Tripgee16 Music she is telling the truth

[@FreeBandz100Ms]

nikejaji Jaji-Balogun yeah I know What I meant is that my African grandma use to tell me stories about how Britain colonised Ghana 🇬🇭

[@xsqd5e7en30]

There is nothing in the world that makes me more proud, than seeing a smart, strong African woman.

[@stephenowususerbeh]

I love her. But I do think you should have given credit to the excerpts you in included in your documentary. Nice work

[@adwoaaffum4404]

Such a Gemstone

[@babulbabul299]

Women are role models.

[@Jorcap]

I feel like there are some people that are so close to earth, so close to nature and so close to god even. They inspire, warn & educate the others. She is one of them. My grandma (from Surinam) is also like her. Every time I see my grandma, I still learn. It means a lot to me

[@TheZuluman7]

Why i didn't know about her till now baffles me surprisingly she lived in Zimbabwe my home country at some stage.She is a pan African legend who deserve a special honor

[@cheikantadiop]

My beautiful African sister. You articulate yourself with such ease.. I l love it.. and thank you for it.

[@TheRJRabbit23]

Why didn’t Oprah interview her on her Oprah show?

[@solangeameck3100]

Good question and to answer this we have to understand WHO AND WHAT Oprah really represents

[@glownaturally2475]

Exactly

[@patrickagyei6547]

Because Oprah don't think she is an African and she the cause of African downfall

[@AngieR82]

Mamie too busy boot-licking...😏

[@vaughncunningham2291]

Oprah wouldn’t interview this sista because she’s a black queen that stands up for Africa and it’s people and speaks the truth about how the whites exploits Africa taking all of its resources this sista speaks the truth remember....Oprah’s the same person that said she wished that she was white the only time this Demon is going to interview a black person it to bring them down for MASA!!!!!

[@marcaroniandcheese626]

Only few could see

[@black12212]

Is this Queen still alive?

[@OralOfori]

Yes!

[@donnieosbourne]

It’s great to have full context

[@fredotlogetswe3047]

What a Queen

[@kofirey6752]

❤❤❤❤ REST.IN.POWER ❤❤❤❤

[@INATALEME]

I need someone to tell me how to get her book. Lots of thanks

[@OralOfori]

Google it or check Amazon please

[@AdjowaaGrace]

How can we make sure the money goes to her??

[@smoothqueue9064]

A president in the making.

[@bismarkadu8799]

Empress was never wrong . Ghanaian's are political ,we don't sit ,around we discuss .

[@adwoaaffum4404]

We forgot how powerful she was

[@thadove7754]

Is it that this Wombman is braver than our African men leaders? 😏 or they thinking about their stomach only? Hhmm. No wonder some of them still against Dr. Kwame nkuruma. They think the stomach Today OMF. So what we gonna do as Africa Youths? Is to rise up. hhhaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh. 😪😪😪 But I love ❤️ this Heroin.we need more of us Thank u for upload this video Nature bleezz u 🙏

[@OralOfori]

Thank you for sharing all over

[@evelyninyang5249]

Worthy of emulation. Mama Ama Ata Aidoo

[@JT-wj9jr]

LET THE CHOIR HEAR THIS OBVIOUS TRUTH AND SAY AMEN IN THE REPLIES!!!!!

[@benedictaewuraesimaison8308]

Amenooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@benedictaewuraesimaison8308]

🤝🏽🤝🏽🤝🏽🤝🏽🤝🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤❤❤❤❤

[@kelvingood2269]

Inspirational African queen

[@lugardboy]

Prof Ama Ata Aidoo is a prolific writer Her selected works: The Dilemma of a Ghost (play), Accra: Longman, 1965. New York: Macmillan, 1971. Anowa (a play based on a Ghanaian legend), London: Longman, 1970. New York: Humanities Press, 1970. No Sweetness Here: A Collection of Short Stories, Longman, 1970. Our Sister Killjoy: or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint (novel), Longman, 1977. Someone Talking to Sometime (a poetry collection), Harare: College Press, 1986. The Eagle and the Chickens and Other Stories (for children), Tana Press, 1986. Birds and Other Poems, Harare: College Press, 1987. An Angry Letter in January (poems), Dangaroo Press, 1992. Changes: a Love Story (novel), The Women's Press, 1991. The Girl Who Can and Other Stories, Heinemann African Writers Series, 1997. Diplomatic Pounds & Other Stories, Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2012. As editorEdit African Love Stories: An Anthology, African Love Stories: An Anthology, Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2006.

[@OralOfori]

Thanks for your comments, be encouraged to share the video as well please

[@soursop1972]

An African Treasure........i hope the ancestors grant her good health and a long life.

[@tetupuorongoratai4726]

I'm a big fan .bless you love

[@OralOfori]

Thanks for sharing

[@antoinetteattipoe3685]

Even before it was said that she attended Wesley Girls High School, I suspected it!!!!

[@davekay9525]

Oh mmai😂

[@stunnerfitness3299]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@mohamedkanu4084]

Good speech for we the Africans but how our leadership can take it seriously.

[@Big_evidence]

Who is here after watching the short video on TikTok

[@jasonwilliams0306]

"Everything you are, is us"