Dramatist Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo
Living place: Ghana
Birthday: 23-3-1940 (84 years old)
Global rank: #57361
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Who is Dramatist Ama Ata Aidoo?
A twentieth century Ghanaian author, she is known for her place in history as having published the first African female playwright. Also a writer and poet, she received the 1992 Commonwealth Writers' Award for her novel, Change, and the Mandela Nelson Award for her 1986 collection of poetry, Who Exchanges With Sometimes.
She was appointed Ghana's Minister of Education in 1982 but resigned after eighteen months when she could not complete her goals.
A twentieth century Ghanaian author, she is known for her place in history as having published the first African female playwright. Also a writer and poet, she received the 1992 Commonwealth Writers' Award for her novel, Change, and the Mandela Nelson Award for her 1986 collection of poetry, Who Exchanges With Sometimes.
She was appointed Ghana's Minister of Education in 1982 but resigned after eighteen months when she could not complete her goals.
She decided at age fifteen that she wanted to become a writer and accomplished this goal by attending Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast and the University of Ghana in Legon. She announced her theatrical debut, A Ghost's Dilemma, in 1965.
Her father was chief Nana Yaw Fama, a Fante royal who influenced her daughter's writing career by establishing the first school in their village Saltpond, Ghana.
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She was born in Ghana, as was the sixth president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame.
She was born in Ghana, as was the sixth president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame.
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When was Dramatist Ama Ata Aidoo born?
Ama Ata Aidoo birthday 23-3-1940 (at the age of 84).
Where is Dramatist Ama Ata Aidoo's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Ama Ata Aidoo was born in . Là Dramatist, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Ama Ata Aidoo's global rank is 57361 and whose rank is 63 in list of famous Dramatist.
Ama Ata Aidoo birthday 23-3-1940 (at the age of 84).
Where is Dramatist Ama Ata Aidoo's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Ama Ata Aidoo was born in . Là Dramatist, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Ama Ata Aidoo's global rank is 57361 and whose rank is 63 in list of famous Dramatist.
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Events in 1940 and 23-3
Events in the world in the birth year of Ama Ata Aidoo
- Winston Churchill becomes Britain's Prime Minister.
- Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico.
- Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania annexed by U.S.S.R.
- Hitler invades Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.
- Lascaux caves with Cro-Magnon art discovered by French schoolboy.
Birthday Ama Ata Aidoo (23-3) in history
- Day 23-3 year 1775: America's founder Patrick Henry declared, "Give me freedom, or give me death."
- Day 23-3 year 1806: Two explorers Lewis and Clark began their journey back east.
- Day 23-3 year 1919: Benito Mussolini founded his own party in Italy, the Fasci di Combattimento.
- Day 23-3 year 1983: U.S. President Ronald Reagan proposed a space-based missile defense system called the Strategic Defense Initiative or “Star Wars.”
- Day 23-3 year 1998: The motion picture epic “Titanic” won 11 Oscars at the 70th Academy Awards, tying it with “Ben-Hur” for the most ever.
- Day 23-3 year 2001: Russia's Mir space station ended its 15-year orbit of the Earth, splashing down in the South Pacific.
- Day 23-3 year 2003: A U.S. Army convoy was ambushed in Iraq with 11 killed and seven captured, including Pfc. Jessica Lynch.
- Day 23-3 year 2010: President Barack Obama signed a health-care overhaul bill, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, into law.
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