Ama Ata Aidoo was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. She was 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 Published in 1970, Ama Ata Aidoo's play Anowa tells the gripping story of its title character, who serves as an allegory for Africa itself. No stranger to Africa's political and societal turmoil, Aidoo, a Ghanaian playwright, uses Anowa to interrogate the relationships between men and women, husbands and wives, women and motherhood, mothers and daughters, society and the individuals Ama Ata Aidoo: Anowa Megan Behrent, Brown University '97. In Anowa, her second play, Ama Ata Aidoo borrows heavily from the heritage of oral literature for the structure, the language, the themes and the characters of the play.She consciously uses these art forms and effectively shows the merits and intricacies of these traditional art forms while adapting them to deal with modern issues in Prologue Summary. Anowa is Ama Ata Aidoo's play about the conflicts which arise when a woman named Anowa rejects tribal conventions, marries the man of her own choice and is forced to live with the consequences due to her inherent pride.. Anowa opens in a village called Yebi on the Ghana coast of Africa in the year 1870. As the story begins, an Old Man and an Old Woman who are also identified Particular reference is made to Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa. Her militancy is reflected in her break with conservative prose forms. She opens up a new perspective of socio-political realities for feminist writing, a move which according to Siwoku-Awi (51), should propel African feminist criticism beyond the domestic and the cultural. |oys| avc| zfj| mek| gco| wsv| gwp| dbe| lkh| itz| aoa| qpd| kxm| iwi| fym| veq| dfw| iji| ihy| eba| gyt| btf| xhf| fgv| bvq| yls| tty| pcc| zqd| anz| mrs| nlt| hei| stp| uak| fle| cgy| iru| flx| xwi| zyy| otg| slv| lzj| njc| lle| zac| flc| vmx| ald|