A Study Guide for Ama Ata Aidoo's "Anowa"
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Anowa
Ama Ata Aidoo
1970
Introduction
Anowa is the second, last, and most accomplished play written by Ghanaian playwright, poet, short-story writer, and novelist Ama Ata Aidoo. First published in 1970 and making its British premiere in London in 1991, Anowa was begun by Aidoo in the late 1960s. She based the play on regional legends and folktales, some of which were about the disobedient daughter.
In such stories, a young woman refuses to marry a suitor, resulting in disaster. In Anowa Aidoo gave such stories her own twist, incorporating a more complicated portrayal of gender and drawing parallels with contemporary Ghanaian history. At the center of the play is the title character, who finds a husband but also remains true to her own ideals, resulting in an unhappy marriage that leads to conflict and tragedy.
Many critics find that Anowa, set in the 1870s, underscores similarities between the slave trade occurring in the Gold Coast, as Ghana was then known, in that time period and the treatment of women in contemporary society. Some believe Anowa is feminist, while others focus on the economic aspects. Most agree that it is thoroughly modern in the dilemmas it presents. As Mildred A. Hill-Lubin writes in her essay Ama Ata Aidoo and the African Diaspora: Things ‘All Good Men and Women Try to Forget,’ but I Will Not Let Them,
Anowa combines the political and the personal and demonstrates the interconnectedness of race, gender, and economic oppressions. It reveals the complicity of Africans in the slaves trade, notes the cover-up in terms of silence.
Author Biography
Aidoo was born Christina Ama Aidoo on March 23, 1940, in Abeadzi Kyiakor, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana). She was the daughter of Nana Yaw Fama and his wife Maame Abba Abasema. Her father was a chief of Abeadzi Kyiakor, located in south-central Ghana, and raised as royalty. Although girls were not often schooled at the time, Aidoo's father believed that for the good of Africa, both women and men should be well educated. Aidoo attended Wesley Girls High School, in Cape Coast, Ghana. By the age of fifteen, she wanted to be a writer. She later entered the University of Ghana in Legon. Before graduating in 1964,