An interview with Ama Ata Aidoo: "I Learnt my First Feminist Lessons in Africa"

Abstract

[Abstract] This is an interview with Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo. It took place in Acrra (Ghana), on January 1998. Aidoo is considered an outspoken African writer who tackles feminist issues in her fiction. In this interview, we focus on feminist theories--and the controversies around African, African American, and Western Feminisms--and look at some of her most relevant works, to see to what extent her females protagonists deal with the somewhat schizophrenic reality of colonialism and post-colonialism at the same time they face African traditional culture and modernity.