Ama Ata Aidoo (Playwright ) was born in Ghana on a Saturday, March 23, 1940 🎈. Ama Ata Aidoo is 84 years old. She is a Aries ♈ and was born in the Year of the Dragon 🐉.
A twentieth-century Ghanaian author, she is known for her place in history as the first published African female dramatist. Also a fiction writer and poet, she received the 1992 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for her novel, Changes, and the Nelson Mandela Prize for her 1986 poetry collection, Someone Talking to Sometime.
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| FULL NAME: | Ama Ata Aidoo |
| BIRTH DATE: | March 23, 1940 |
| BIRTHPLACE: | Ghana |
| AGE: | 84 years old |
| NATIONALITY: | Ghanaian |
| ETHNICITY: | Unknown |
| ZODIAC: | Aries |
| CHINESE ZODIAC: | Dragon |
About
Ama Ata Aidoo is a Playwright. Ama was born in the 1940s, in the middle of the Silent Generation generation. Silent Generation are individuals born between 1925 and 1945. This generation is known for Jazz, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Malcolm X, Gone With The Wind, Mickey Mouse, Andy Warhol, Clint Eastwood, Bob Dylan. The Silent Generation has experienced critical historical events, including the Korean War, The Cold War, the McCarthy Hearings, and the Space Race.
Her father was Chief Nana Yaw Fama, a Fante royal who influenced his daughter’s writing career by founding the first school in their village of Saltpond, Ghana. Find out who is Ama Ata Aidoo dating right now.
She decided at age fifteen that she wanted to be a writer and accomplished this goal by attending Wesley Girls’ High School in Cape Coast and The University of Ghana in Legon. She published her debut dramatic work, The Dilemma of a Ghost, in 1965.
DID YOU KNOW She was appointed Ghanaian Minister of Education in 1982 but resigned after eighteen months when she couldn’t accomplish her goals.
FACT She was born in Ghana, as was the Sixth President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame.
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Birthday
Currently, Ama Ata Aidoo is 84 years old. Her next birthday is away. Ama will celebrate her 85th birthday on a Saturday, March 23rd. She shares a birthday with everyone who was born on March 23, 1940. Below is the countdown to her next birthday.
Zodiac
Ama Ata Aidoo’s zodiac sign is Aries. People born between the dates of March 21st and April 19th belong to the first sign in the zodiac, Aries. Aries are known for being ambitious, honest, self-assertive, and brave. Sagittarius is the most compatible sign for Aries.
Famous Aries celebrities are Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, Jackie Chan, Leonardo DaVinci, Robert Downey Jr., James Franco, Harry Houdini, Thomas Jefferson, Vincent van Gogh, Emma Watson, Marlon Brando, and Charlie Chaplin. Aries ruling planet is Mars. Astrologically, Mars represents ambition, passion, and energy.
Ama Ata Aidoo was born in the Year of the Dragon. The dragon represents good luck, strength, and health in Chinese culture. People born in the Year of the Dragon are courageous, intelligent, natural born leaders, charismatic, and lucky. They can also sometimes be impetuous, inflexible, and brash.
This year is the Year of the Dragon.
DID YOU KNOW United States life expectancy is about 78.5 years.
Ama Ata Aidoo is a 84 years old Playwright, born in March, in the Year of the Dragon (1940), and is a Aries. Her life path number is 22. Ama’s birthstone is Aquamarine, and her birth flower is Daffodil. You may also check out all famous birthdays in March or specifically birthdays on March 23.
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