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Jun 9, 2023 | 
uwalumni.com | Saidiya Hartman |Zora Neale Hurston |Ama Ata Aidoo |Octavia E. Butler
In the introduction to The Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging, Canadian poet Dionne Brand recalls a conversation with her grandfather, during which he struggled to conjure the name of the African people from which their family descended. “Having no name to call on was having no past,” she writes.
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Jun 2, 2023 | 
africanentertainment.com | Ama Ata Aidoo |Bill Cooper
Ama Ata Aidoo, the iconic Ghanaian writer whose classics The Dilemma of a Ghost and Changes were taught to children in West African schools for decades, has died aged 81. The death of the playwright and poet who was famous for her feminist ideals was announced on Wednesday in a short statement by her family. The cause of death was an undisclosed illness.
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Jun 2, 2023 | 
inkl.com | Ama Ata Aidoo
The author’s work included the play The Dilemma of a Ghost, in which a Ghanaian student returning home brings his African American wife into the traditional culture and the extended family that he now finds restrictive. Her first novel was the semi-autobiographical Our Sister Killjoy, published in 1977 and about a Ghanaian girl travelling through Europe.
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Jun 2, 2023 | 
upstract.com | Ama Ata Aidoo
The Ghanaian writer and academic Ama Ata Aidoo, whose work focused on the modern African woman, has died aged 81. Ata Aidoo, whose fans included Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, rejected the idea of what she described as a “western perception that the African female is a downtrodden wretch”, said the BBC.
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Jun 2, 2023 | 
guardian.ng | Itunu Azeez Kareem |Ama Ata Aidoo |Chinelo Eze
Record-breaking talented Nigerian artist, Rema has paid a special visit to the recently crowned La-Liga champions Barcelona sporting complex. The talented singer-songwriter expressed his excitement about the unforgettable experience through a post on his Twitter page, which he shared on Thursday.
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Jun 2, 2023 | 
guardian.ng | Ama Ata Aidoo |Chinelo Eze
Dwayne Johnson has made it official that he is returning to the "Fast & Furious" franchise. He shared the news on his social media, expressing his full confirmation that his character Luke Hobbs will be back in action. Johnson expressed gratitude to the audience for their support and excitement surrounding his surprise cameo in "Fast… Dwayne Johnson has made it official that he is returning to the “Fast & Furious” franchise.
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Jun 2, 2023 | 
guardian.ng | Itunu Azeez Kareem |Ama Ata Aidoo |Chinelo Eze
Nigerian music stars, Olamide (Badoo) and Asake have finally released their music collaboration, titled "New Religion" The video snippet was posted on Olamide's Instagram page a few hours ago with the caption, "Only dead fish goes with the flow, new music, new religion" Asake, the "Mr Money" crooner also responded by posting the details of… Nigerian music stars, Olamide (Badoo) and Asake have finally released their music collaboration, titled “New Religion” The video snippet was posted on...
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
guardian.ng | Ama Ata Aidoo |Dennis Erezi
A Russian court imposed a fine on US messenger service WhatsApp on Thursday for failing to delete banned content. The three-million-rouble ($37,000) fine was the first imposed on WhatsApp for such an offence. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, was banned and branded “extremist” by Russian authorities last year. Meta’s other platforms, Facebook and Instagram, were blocked in Russia along with Twitter, but WhatsApp remained accessible.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
guardian.ng | Ama Ata Aidoo |Dennis Erezi
Eight Croatians held in Zambia for nearly six months on child trafficking charges were acquitted on Thursday and will return home as soon as possible, the government in Zagreb said. The group, comprising four couples, were arrested in early December while trying to leave Zambia along with four children from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. The eight said they legally adopted the children, who all had Croatian papers.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
guardian.ng | Ama Ata Aidoo |Dennis Erezi
Ethnic Serbs gathered again in a flashpoint town in north Kosovo on Thursday at the site of clashes earlier this week with NATO-led forces, as Washington urged both Belgrade and Pristina to diffuse tensions. In the northern town of Zvecan, some 70 protesters — significantly fewer than crowds seen on previous days — rallied outside the town hall, sealed off with barbed wire and encircled by NATO-led peacekeepers (KFOR) in full riot gear.
