Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70: A Reader in African Culture Studies

Scholars in a wide range of humanities and social sciences celebrate the most widely read African women writer today with 42 essays and poems. Among them are a conversation between Ama Ata Aidoo and Micere Githae Mugo, writing for the child in a fractured world, her essays "To Be a Women" and "The African Woman Today," peacemaking and the proverbial wisdom of Africa, and in praise of her novel Changes. Distributed in the US by Lynne Rienner Publishers. Annotation �穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)