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Celebrated Ghanaian author, playwright, poet, author, Professor Ama Ata Aidoo has died, her family confirmed in a statement Wednesday. It has asked for privacy as it mourns one of its own.
Aidoo, according to reports, passed away in the early hours of May 31, after a short illness.
Famed for mixing humour and hope with serious issues of gender and social conflict in her writings, the famous African writer was born daughter to a chief in 1942, and spent a part of her adult life working as an educator in the United States of America.
She also served her country, Ghana, as an Education minister in the early ‘80s.
Among a long list of books she wrote are Diplomatic Pounds, Anowa, The Girl Who Can and Other Stories, Changes, No Sweetness Here and After the Ceremonies.
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