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Ama Ata Aidoo

1942 - 2023

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Ama Ata Aidoo (23 March 1942 — 31 May 2023) was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. She was a Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration. Her first play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, was published in 1965, making Aidoo the first published female African dramatist. As a novelist, she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1992 with the novel Changes. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ama Ata Aidoo is the 3,205th most popular writer (up from 5,119th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Ghana (up from 19th in 2019) and the most popular Ghanaian Writer.

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Among writers, Ama Ata Aidoo ranks 3,205 out of 7,302. Before her are René Huyghe, Janosch, Macropedius, Jan Luyken, Maria Wirtemberska, and António Ferreira. After her are Galaktion Tabidze, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Ybyrai Altynsarin, Lady Caroline Lamb, Ivo Brešan, and Antonio Ghislanzoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Ama Ata Aidoo ranks 281. Before her are Günter Wallraff, B. J. Thomas, Clarence Clemons, Pyotr Klimuk, Reinhard Mey, and Eumir Deodato. After her are Rupert Sheldrake, Natalia Gutman, David J. Griffiths, Vera Alentova, Jackie Oliver, and Derek Parfit. Among people deceased in 2023, Ama Ata Aidoo ranks 217. Before her are Hubert Reeves, Paul de Senneville, Friedrich Cerha, Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Dean Smith. After her are Romualdo Arppi Filho, Alfredo M. Bonanno, Murat Karayılan, Yacouba Sawadogo, Jim Brown, and Oleg Protopopov.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, Ama Ata Aidoo ranks 16 out of 162. Before her are John Kufuor (1938), Jerry Rawlings (1947), Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703), Peter Mensah (1959), Efua Dorkenoo (1949), and Michael Essien (1982). After her are Peter Poreku Dery (1918), Clement Quartey (1938), Christian Atsu (1992), Kofi Kingston (1981), Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915), and Asamoah Gyan (1985).

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Among WRITERS In Ghana

Among writers born in Ghana, Ama Ata Aidoo ranks 1. After her are William Boyd (1952), Ayi Kwei Armah (1939), Kofi Awoonor (1935), and Amma Darko (1956).

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