Ama Ata Aidoo

Ama Ata Aidoo was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician and academic who wrote novels, short stories and plays. Her first play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, appeared in 1965, and she is known as the first published female African dramatist. Her novel Changes: A Love Story won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1992, and her other books include Anowa, No Sweetness Here and Our Sister Killjoy. In 2000 she founded the Mbaasem Foundation in Accra to support African women writers.