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Making The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo: An Interview with Yaba Badoe
- ariel: A Review of International English Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 49, Number 2-3, April-July 2018
- pp. 257-269
- 10.1353/ari.2018.0020
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Abstract:
British-Ghanaian documentary filmmaker Yaba Badoe's 2014 film The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo focuses on the life and career of one of Africa's most influential women writers. Badoe's films have won several prizes and received international acclaim. Her versatile career also includes her work as a producer, fiction writer, and journalist. In this interview, she discusses her fictional work as well as her documentary films, including The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo.