ABSTRACT
Ama Ata Aidoo was born on March 23, 1942, in the Fanti town Abeadzi Kyakor in central Ghana. As a child of Nana Yaw Fama, a chief of Abeadzi Kyakor, and her mother Maame Abba Abasema, Aidoo grew up with a clear sense of African traditions and a Western education. Aidoo describes her father as a “highly politicized individual and an artist” and regards her mother as politicized in her own way (James, 13). Looking back to her parents and her grandfather, who was imprisoned, tortured, and killed by the British, Aidoo sees herself as “coming from a long line of fighters” (James, 13).
