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Ama Ata Aidoo [1942-0] Ghanaian

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Ama Ata Aidoo, née Christina Ama Aidoo is a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academic. She was also a Minister of Education in Ghana under the Jerry Rawlings administration.

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Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.		101
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.		102
People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.		103
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.	Teacher	104
They had always told me that I wrote like a man.		105
Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people would find their careers, their life, dreams and visions fulfilled here.		106
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.		107
Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.		108

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