Gay Wilentz (essay date 1992)


Gay Wilentz (essay date 1992)

SOURCE: Wilentz, Gay. “Ama Ata Aidoo: The Dilemma of a Ghost.” In Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora, pp. 38-57. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

[In the following essay, Wilentz evaluates the “dilemma” of traditional African versus Western values that Aidoo constructs in The Dilemma of a Ghost.]

If you educate a man, you educate an individual. If you educate a woman, you educate a nation.1

Kwegyir Aggrey

Ama...

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