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KNOW YOUR AUTHORS: OCTAVIA BUTLER
BY RAYNA REID RAYFORD
On this International Women's Day, the Ama Ata AIdoo Centre for Creative Writing sautes Octavia Estelle Butler. the greatest writer that...
20 African authors you should know
There's a whole host of authors from Africa who are making a splash on the international stage. These are a few.
Maaza Mengiste's novel The...
AAA Centre for Creative Writing
A breadth of knowledge of northern Ghanaian culture, customs and way of everyday life:...
By George Sidney Abugri
The anthology Larbanga: Short Stories From the Savannah is a diverse, rich and very interesting collection of 22 short stories from...
Authors of The Lockdown: Creative Nonfiction about Living with COVID-19 (2021)
Grace Louise Wood is a British-Jamaican writer, artist, educator, yogi and traveller. She has been living and working in Ghana since 2018, running education...
The Lockdown: Creative Non—fiction about Living with COVID-19 [2021]
Aidoo Centre's third anthology, The Lockdown: creative nonfiction about living with COVID-19, was launched at Tabon Festival Wednesday December 15, 2021. The event started...
20 African authors you should know
There's a whole host of authors from Africa who are making a splash on the international stage. These are a few.
Maaza Mengiste's novel The...
‘Adabraka’ Anthology Launched
TUESDAY JULY 24, 2018. ACCRA: The Ama Ata Aidoo Centre launched its debut anthology of short fiction at an impressive event at the AUCC...
An Obscure Afro-Brazilian “Colony” In Ghana: Accra’s Tabon Community
By Hermann W. von Hesse SOURCE: The Metropole
In the summer of 2017, I returned from Madison, Wisconsin to Accra – my hometown and Ghana’s...
Know Your Authors: Ama Ata Aidoo
Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo is one of Africa’s foremost woman writers. She’s a feminist, poet, academic, playwright and novelist with many notable works under...
Ama Ata Aidoo Goes Home at 81
By Rose A. Sackeyfio, The Conversation
Prolific author and former Ghanaian education minister Ama Ata Aidoo passed away on 31 May 2023 at the age of 81. News...