Ama ata aidoo no sweetness here

ama ata aidoo no sweetness here
A great collection of stories showing how modern life is impacting on traditional beliefs and practices.
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In this collection, Ama Aita Aidoo explores postcolonial life in Ghana with her characteristic honesty and humor.

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    In this short story collection, the award-winning poet and author of Changes and Our Sister Killjoy explores postcolonial life in Ghana with her characteristic honesty, humor, and insight.

No Sweetness Here and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo - Goodreads

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  • Complete summary of Ama Ata Aidoo's No Sweetness Here.
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    Revisiting “Miss Aidoo’s ” No Sweetness Here

  • In No Sweetness Here (1970), a collection of short stories, Aidoo exercised the oral element of storytelling, writing tales that are meant to be read aloud.

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  • A house servant wonders what independence means in a country where indoor plumbing is still reserved for bosses.

    • Ama Ata Aidoo: No Sweetness Here

    Megan Behrent, Brown University '97

    Ama Ata Aidoo's first collection of short stories entitled No Sweetness Here is a sharp critique of the failure of Independence to actually liberate the majority of people in Ghana, demonstrating the bitter disillusionment that ensues as hopes for liberation are dashed and material conditions remain unchanged and unimproved for the majority of people in the new "post-colonial" Ghana. Published in , and written over eight years in the period that led up to and immediately followed the military overthrow of the Kwame Nkrumah government in , No Sweetness Here, is in many ways exemplary of the transition from expectation to disillusionment that occurs with the betrayal of ordinary people by the leaders of national liberation struggles, the failure of Independence to live up to its promises and the continuation even after independence of many forms of Western imperialism in the newly founded nations.

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    No Sweetness Here Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary

      “No Sweetness here” is a short story by Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo.

    No Sweetness Here by Ama Ata Aidoo - Goodreads

  • In this short story collection, the award-winning poet and author of Changes and Our Sister Killjoy explores postcolonial life in Ghana with her characteristic honesty, humor, and insight.

    • No Sweetness Here and Other Stories - SuperSummary

      Complete summary of Ama Ata Aidoo's No Sweetness Here.