ABSTRACT
Ama Ata Aidoo is one of Africa’s most prolific and versatile writers. Not only has she written plays, short stories, novels, poetry, essays, letters and criticism, but also, by drawing upon the Ghanaian oral tradition’s fusing of narrative techniques, she is able to synthesise these different forms, which are generally split among different genres in Western literary traditions. Aidoo’s considerable creative and academic accomplishments have been matched by a strong political activism that has seen her at the forefront of the development of contemporary African feminism.
