Ama Ata Aidoo

Ama Ata Aidoo (23 March 1942 – 31 May 2023) was a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright, politician, and academic. She was the Secretary for Education in Ghana from 1982 to 1983 under Jerry Rawlings's PNDC administration.

Aidoo's first play, The Dilemma of a Ghost, was published in 1965, making her the first published female African dramatist. As a novelist, she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1992 with the novel Changes. In 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation in Accra to promote and support the work of African women writers.