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    Changes : A Love Story

    By Ama Ata Aidoo

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    A Commonwealth Prize–winning novel of “intense power . . . examining the role of women in modern African society” by the acclaimed Ghanaian author (Publishers Weekly).

    Living in Ghana’s capital city of Accra with a postgraduate degree and a career in data analysis, Esi Sekyi is a thoroughly modern African woman. Perhaps that is why she decides to divorce her husband after enduring yet another morning’s marital rape. Though her friends and family are baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn’t beat her!), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man—wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage—the modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems.

    Witty and compelling, Aidoo’s novel, according to Manthia Diawara, “inaugurates a new realist style in African literature.” In an afterword to this edition, Tuzyline Jita Allan “places Aidoo’s work in a historical context and helps introduce this remarkable writer [who] sheds light on women’s problems around the globe”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateMar 25, 2020
    ISBN9781678018702
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    Changes : A Love Story
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    Ama Ata Aidoo

    Professor Ama Ata Aidoo (b. 1943) was a Ghanaian author and playwright. Having grown up in a Fante royal household, she attended Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast. Her first play, The Dilemma of a Ghost was produced in 1964, and published the following year, making her the first female African dramatist to be published. She is currently long term Visiting Professor and writer in residence of Africana Studies and Creative Writing at Brown University, Rhode Island. Ama Ata Aidoo died in 2023.

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    • 4/5
      The theme of post-colonialism and it's impact on educated african women is eye opening. The novel brings the issues of how traditions can clash with modernity in such a way that marriage can be duly redefined by those who undertake it. The author brings to light the issues educated african women face in their homes and workplace ,and repeatedly assumes the question how can an educated african women be married and still maintain her freedom of self and career without neglecting her wifely,motherly duties without clashing with tradition and all its counterparts ?
    • 5/5
      This women is amazing, I wish we had many many many wise and Beautiful women around. She is so natural, beautiful and HIGHLY SMART! ??????????