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Ama Ata Aidoo, ''née'' Christina Ama Aidoo (born 23 March 1942, Saltpond) is a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academic. She was also a Minister of Education in Ghana under the Jerry Rawlings administration. She currently lives in Ghana, where in 2000 she established the Mbaasem Foundation to promote and support the work of African women writers.〔〔("Welcome to Mbaasem" ), Mbaasem Foundation.〕 ==Life== Born in Saltpond in Ghana's Central Region, she grew up in a Fante royal household, the daughter of Nana Yaw Fama, chief of Abeadzi Kyiakor, and Maame Abasema. Aidoo was sent by her father to Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast, from 1961 to 1964. The headmistress of Wesley Girls' bought her her first typewriter. After leaving high school, she enrolled at the University of Ghana in Legon and received her Bachelor of Arts in English as well as writing her first play, ''The Dilemma of a Ghost'', in 1964.〔("Ama Ata Aidoo" ), ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.〕 The play was published by Longman the following year, making Aidoo the first published African woman dramatist.〔Naana Banyiwa Horne, "Aidoo, Ama Ata", ''Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing'', 2001, Routledge.〕 She worked in the United States, where she held a fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University. She also served as a research fellow at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, and as a Lecturer in English at the University of Cape Coast, eventually rising there to the position of Professor. Aside from her literary career, Aidoo was appointed Minister of Education under the Provisional National Defence Council in 1982. She resigned after 18 months. She has also spent a great deal of time teaching and living abroad for months at a time. She has lived in America, Britain, Germany, and Zimbabwe. Aidoo taught various English courses at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, in the early to mid-1990s. She is currently a Visiting Professor in the Africana Studies Department at Brown University. Aidoo is a patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature (alongside Dele Olojede, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Kole Omotoso, Margaret Busby and Zakes Mda), created in 2013 as a platform for African writers of debut books of fiction.〔(Patrons ), Etisalat Prize for Literature.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ama Ata Aidoo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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