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Libation for Ama Ata Aidoo | |
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Introduction: "Someone Should Lend Me a Tongue" | |
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Foreword: An Open Letter to Ama Ata Aidoo | |
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�That is the story I am telling you. I am taking you to bird town, so I can't understand why you insist on searching for eggs from the suburb!" (From: No Sweetness Here) | |
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Three Female Writers in Modern Africa: Flora Nwapa, Ama Ata Aidoo and Grace Ogot | |
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A Conversation: Ama Ata Aidoo with Micere Githae Mugo | |
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"Because surely in our environment there are more important things to write about?" (From: Changes) | |
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The Amistad's Legacy: Reflections on the Spaces of Colonisation | |
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Radical, Comparative Postcolonialism and the Contemporary Crisis of Disciplinary Identities: Outline of a Prolegomenon | |
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Literary Visions of a 21st Century Africa: A Note on the Pan African Ideal in Ghanaian Literature | |
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Writing for the Child in a Fractured World | |
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Who is an African? | |
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The Longevity of Whiteness and Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy | |
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Psychoanalysis, Gender and Narratives of Women's Friendships in Ama Ata Aidoo's Writing | |
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Teaching Aidoo: Theorising via Creative Writing | |
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"Every woman and every man should be a feminist - especially if they believe that Africans should take charge of our land, its wealth, our lives, and the burden of our own development." (From: "Literature, Feminism and the African Woman Today")p147 | |
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Nervous Masculinities: Male Characters in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes | |
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Gendering Commodity Relations in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story | |
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African Women and Power: Ama Ata Aidoo's Essays "To Be a Woman" and 'The African Woman Today" | |
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She-Kings in the Trinity of Being: The Budding Girl-Child in Ama Ata Aidoo's Short Stories | |
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Black Women of a Certain Age, Power and Presence: Ama Ata Aidoo's and Toni Morrison's | |
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Towards Alternative Representations of Women in African Cultural Products | |
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Ties that Bound: Slave Concubines/Wives and the End of Slavery in the Gold Coast, c.1874-1900 | |
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"[A] mixture of complete sweetness and smoky roughage. … Oh, Africa. Crazy old continent…" (From: Our Sister Killjoy) | |
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A Historical Case Study of a Slave Girl in Asante Mampong | |
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Anowa, Paradoxical Queenmother of the Diaspora | |
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The Call to the Priesthood and Other Stories in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa | |
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Yesterday's Quarrels and Today's Playmates: Peacemaking and the Proverbial Wisdom of Africa | |
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Not Just for Children Anymore: Aidoo's The Eagle and the Chickens and Questions of Identity | |
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Someone Talking to Sometime: A Dialogue Across Time and Space | |
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'Tribal Scars" on the Body of "The Girl Who Can": The Imperative of African Social and Cultural Self-Redemption in the Short Stories of Aidoo and Semb�ne | |
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Mfantse Meets English: Interpretations of Ama Ata Aidoo's Multilingual Idiom | |
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Disobedient Subversions: Anowa's Unending Quest | |
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African Theatre and the Menace of Transition: Radical Transformations in Popular Entertainment | |
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Emerging Issues from Big Brother Africa 5: Reflections on Reality TV, the Celebrity Status and Gender | |
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Mac Tontoh: The Saga of a Broken Trumpet | |
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"So as for this woman e be She-King" (From: The Girl Who Can and Other Stories) Tributes | |
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For the Eagle Who Taught the Chickens the Meaning of Flight | |
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In Praise of Ama Ata Aidoo's Novel, Changes | |
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Ama Ata Aidoo: Whose Dilemma Could It Be? | |
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Marginal Notes: The Mbaasem/Daily Graphic Writers' Page | |
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Reminiscences from Exile | |
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AAA - The Mind Reader and the Reading Mind | |
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Ama Ata Aidoo: A Personal Celebration | |
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Reference Documents on the Life and Work of Ama Ata Aidoo | |
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A Bibliography of Writing by and on Ama Ata Aidoo: A Compilation in Progress | |
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Chronology of the First Seventy Years in the Life of Ama Ata Aidoo | |
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Notes on Contributors | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |