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Ama Ata Aidoo Centre

@AidooCentre

First Centre for Creative Writing in West Africa. Under @auccghana Founding Director: @BlueBirdTail Current Director: @theancientgriot

 Accra, Ghana
aucc.edu.gh/aidoocentre/
Joined January 2017
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Dr. Zenda@IAMZENDA31 Jul 2020
“Where Would The Whole Western World Be Without AFRICA? I Am Not Saying It...It’s A Fact!” ~Ama Ata Aidoo @AidooCentre @AmaAtaAidoo Full Video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=4U2LlO…
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Lọlá Shónẹ́yìn
@lolashoneyin23 Mar 2020
Happy 80th Birthday to our utterly wonderful Mama @AmaAtaAidoo! Thank you for paving the way for us and showing us what we can be. I hope you have a fantastic day, sweetened with all the joy and celebration you deserve.
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Enjoy, people!
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@writersPG23 Mar 2020
Let's spend the rest of our evening listening to Ama Ata Aidoo in conversation with Kobena Eyi Acquah at the opening of the first edition of Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra. #pagya2017. Enjoy! 👇 youtu.be/8ox4IR5vR5c
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A classic!
Deborah S., Ph.D. (@deborah_saki) profile pictureDeborah S., Ph.D.@deborah_saki23 Mar 2020
'Changes' was the first Ama Ata Aidoo book I actively remember reading. I was in junior high and was so in love with it that I wanted to write a story exactly like it! (I was also half in love with Esi's second husband). This book was my first introduction, at that stage,
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Kinna Likimani@kinnareads23 Mar 2020
Today my mum, @AmaAtaAidoo, turns 80. Happy birthday Mummy. The boys and I love you loads. I've said often that writer-moms are the best and you are among the best of writer-moms. Wo tsri nkwa! Afenhyiapa!!!
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M.anifest
@manifestive23 Mar 2020
To the incomparable @AmaAtaAidoo ... Happy 80th Auntie! ♥️🥂👑 Love Always, M.
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Writers Project Gh
@writersPG23 Mar 2020
Happy birthday to Ghanaian writer,author,poet ,playwright educator&founder of the Mbaasem Foundation Ama Ata Aidoo. Share with us ,your fav book,poem line ,quote or memory you have of her ! Ours- we were lucky to have her open the very first Pagya festival in 2017.
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VOAUCB@voaucb22 Feb 2020
Starting from Monday is the Tertiary Business Sense Challenge... Don't miss it @tv3_ghana @GCompetion #TBSCVer2 #AUCCSRC #auccghana 👇
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CALL to Submit! There are only 18 days left to enter your published short stories for The Caine Prize for African Writing 2020. See how to enter on our website. buff.ly/31S55PH
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e-Ananse@eananselibrary12 Jan 2020
Books vs. Movies What's your go-to?? Would you read a book that has a movie made from it or would you rather watch the movie and let the book be?? #books #movies #bookseries #movielover – at Accra, Ghana
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Kobina SEKYI a Nationalist. He became very popular when he was the first educated elite to appear in a colonial court in the Ghanaian “ntoma” as a lawyer. He vowed never to wear European clothes. He is the writer behind the The Blinkards & The Anglo-Fante ghanaianmuseum.com/kobina-se…
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD🕷️@Nnedi14 Jan 2020
Finally, I can be public about it! We are adapting Binti into a TV series at @hulu. I’m co-writing the pilot with @StacyAmma (HBO's Watchmen). #Africanfuturism #Binti 🌍🚀 hollywoodreporter.com/live-f…
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Excited to see @larimah's (#CWprize regional winner 2015) choices here, & other writers we have been proud to work with in the past! @BernardineEvari, Chair of 1st #CWprize @Anthony1983, in 'Nicosia Beyond Barriers', @SaqiBooks & @cwwriters anthology @helonhabila, on #addastories
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Don't know what to read or looking for books to give as presents, don't miss The Guardian's @guardian best books of 2019, picked by the year's best writers, includes 2019 Caine prize winner Lesley Nneka Arimah's @larimah choices! buff.ly/33ylnND
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Ashesi University
@Ashesi1 Jan 2020
Ashesi’s permanent campus in Berekuso: Beginning of End of the decade the decade
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Africa Film Society@AfricaFilmSoc20 Dec 2019
Excited to announce this month's edition of #ClassicsInThePark will feature The GERMAN KING, @Adetokumboh 's short film about Rudolf Duala Managua Bell, a Duala king and resistance leader in the German colony of Cameroon. December 28th. Akola Boni Park. 6pm. FREE #CITP2019
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Africa Film Society@AfricaFilmSoc17 Dec 2019
Excited to announce this month's edition of #ClassicsInThePark will feature King Ampaw's 2006 classic NO TIME TO DIE 🇬🇭 + 3 short films. December 28th. Akola Boni Park. 6pm. FREE #CITP2019
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Writers Project Gh
@writersPG11 Dec 2019
Our last event for the year features Ogochukwu Promise in conversation with Ivor Agyeman Duah Join us at @e_ananse_ Osu Branch on Friday at 7pm! The event is free!! writersprojectghana.com/ogoc…
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