Ama Ata Aidoo, Visiting Profesor

Office Location: Churchill House, 155 Angell St.

Phone: (401) 863-3137

Ama_Ata_Aidoo@Brown.edu

Fall 2009 course
LITR 1110L - Aspects of Contemporary Prose Practice

Spring 2010 course
On leave

Ama Ata Aidoo is the distinguished author of nine books, including The Girl Who Can and Other Stories, An angry Letter in January and Other Poems, and Changes, a novel, which was named winner of the 1992 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Africa. Ms. Aidoo is also a dramatist, critic, and author of literature for children. A native of Ghana, her works frequently explore issues of colonialism and neo-colonialism, racism, and women's liberation in both national and international contexts. She has been a Fellow of the Advanced Creative Writing Program at Stanford University and a Ghanaian Minister of Education, a columnist for The New Internationalist and Executive Director of Mbassem ('women's words, women's affairs), a foundation to establish and maintain a writer's retreat. Ms. Aidoo has taught at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Brandeis University, Oberlin College, and Hamilton College. She is a Visiting Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts at Brown.