Ama Ata Aidoo Biography – Age, Career, Family, Cause of Death and Net worth

Ama Ata Aidoo was a renowned Ghanaian author, poet and playwright.

Age

She was 81 years old.

Career

The renowned feminist depicted and celebrated the condition of African women in works such as The Dilemma of a Ghost, Our Sister Killjoy and Changes. She opposed what she described as a “Western perception that the African female is a downtrodden wretch”

She also served as Ghana’s education minister in the early 1980s but resigned when she could not make education free.

Ata won many literary awards for her novels, plays and poems, including the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Changes, a love story about a statistician who divorces her first husband and enters into a polygamist marriage.

Her work, including plays like Anowa, have been read in schools across West Africa, along with works of other greats like Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe. She was a major influence on the younger generation of writers, including Nigeria’s awarding-winning Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Cause of Death

She died died on Wednesday morning after a brief illness according to the statement by her family;

“The Family of Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo with deep sorrow but in the hope of the resurrection, informs the general public that our beloved relative and writer passed away in the early hours of this morning Wednesday 31st May 2023, after a short illness.

Net Worth

Her estimated net worth is not available at the moment