One of Africa's most-celebrated authors and playwrights, Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo, has died aged 81.
Ednews informs via AL-Jazeera that a renowned feminist, she depicted and celebrated the condition of African women in works such as The Dilemma of a Ghost, Our Sister Killjoy and Changes.
She opposed what she described as a "Western perception that the African female is a downtrodden wretch".
She also served as education minister in the early 1980s but resigned when she could not make education free.