Our Sister Killjoy

Author : Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780582308459
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Sister Killjoy written by Ama Ata Aidoo and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aidoo's first novel explores the thoughts and experiences of a Ghanaian girl on her travels in Europe

Author : Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Sister Killjoy written by Ama Ata Aidoo and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558619143
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changes written by Ama Ata Aidoo and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2015-04-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Commonwealth Prize–winning novel of “intense power . . . examining the role of women in modern African society” by the acclaimed Ghanaian author (Publishers Weekly). Living in Ghana’s capital city of Accra with a postgraduate degree and a career in data analysis, Esi Sekyi is a thoroughly modern African woman. Perhaps that is why she decides to divorce her husband after enduring yet another morning’s marital rape. Though her friends and family are baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn’t beat her!), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man—wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage—the modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems. Witty and compelling, Aidoo’s novel, according to Manthia Diawara, “inaugurates a new realist style in African literature.” In an afterword to this edition, Tuzyline Jita Allan “places Aidoo’s work in a historical context and helps introduce this remarkable writer [who] sheds light on women’s problems around the globe” (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903552162
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dilemma of a Ghost written by Ama Ata Aidoo and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ukamaka Olisakwe
Publisher : Black Spot Books
ISBN 13 : 1911648179
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ogadinma written by Ukamaka Olisakwe and published by Black Spot Books. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right is a tale of departure, loss and adaptation; of mothers whose experience at the hands of controlling men leave them with burdens they find too much to bear. After an unwanted pregnancy leaves her exiled from her family in Kano, thwarting her plans to go to university, seventeen-year-old Ogadinma is sent to her aunt's in Lagos. When a whirlwind romance with an older man descends into indignity, she is forced to channel her strength and resourcefulness to escape a fate that appears all but inevitable. A feminist classic in the making, Ukamaka Olisakwe's sophomore novel introduces a heroine for whom it is impossible not to root and announces the author as a gifted chronicler of the patriarchal experience. Illuminates a fascinating time in Nigeria's recent past, as the novel's heroine struggles against the shackles of a Church-dominated patriarchal society amid rising political turmoil · Written by a rising star of Nigeria's vibrant literature scene, a finalist for the 2019 Brittle Paper Award for Creative Nonfiction and established screenwriter · An exquisitely written bildungsroman that will appeal equally to readers of literary fiction and a new adult audience

Author : Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435910136
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl who Can written by Ama Ata Aidoo and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of short stories, Aidoo elevates the mundane in women's lives to an intellectual level in an attempt at challenging patriarchal structures and dominance in African society.

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African Novel in English written by M. Keith Booker and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The African Novel in English Keith Booker uses eight African novels to illustrate the scopes, varieties and the general aesthetic, cultural, and political concerns that have motivated African authors.

Author : Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496201116
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Ceremonies written by Ama Ata Aidoo and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues. After the Ceremonies is arranged in three parts: new and uncollected poems, some of which Aidoo calls “misplaced or downright lost”; selections from Aidoo’s An Angry Letter in January and Other Poems; and selections from Someone Talking to Sometime. Although Aidoo is best known for her novels Changes: A Love Story and Our Sister Killjoy, which are widely read in women’s literature courses, and her plays The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa, which are read and performed all over the world, her prowess as a poet shines in this collection.

Author : Dambudzo Marechera
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780865437340
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Insider written by Dambudzo Marechera and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Inside develops the preoccupations of his award-winning House of Hunger by exploring, in his devastatingly honest way, the predicaments of exile and the black identity, and examining the realities of living under the threat of the Bomb."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Susheila Nasta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motherlands written by Susheila Nasta and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: