Yaba Badoe

Yaba Badoe

human

Sex or gender	female
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom, Ghana
Date of birth	1955
Place of birth	Tamale
Languages spoken, written or signed	English
Occupation	filmmaker, journalist, writer, novelist, film director
Field of work	film, documentary film, journalism, literature
Employer	University of Ghana
Educated at	King's College
Notable work	I Want Your Sex, A commitment to care, One to One, The Witches of Gambaga, The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo
Award received	Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou
Personal pronoun	L484

Yaba Badoe ba dɔge la 1955 yuoni poɔ. O e la a Ghana-British deɛne deɛnɛ kaŋa, kyɛ naŋ e duori ŋmɛ yaara ane duoro sɛgebo.

Toma Yɛlɛ

Yaba Badoe, ba dɔge o la Tamale, northern Ghana. Britain poɔ la ka o gaa o sakuuri a yi onaŋ e bibilee lɛ. O baarɛ la o Univasiti a King's College, Cambridge, Badoe toŋ la a saama yɛlɛ kaaba a Ghana poɔ asaŋ na ka o paaŋ piili o meŋɛ toma a BBC duori yiri poɔ. O meŋ da e peɛ-peɛrɛ a Institute a ko African zannoo poɔ a University kpoŋ na be Ghana poɔ. O wuli la Spain ane Jamaica saku biiri kyɛ naŋ e duoro maale maala a Britain duori yiri poɔ. A yi a toma ama puoriŋ: Black and White (1987), o da e neɛ naŋ kaara a naasaala mine nimikpɛ kyaare ne a Afereka deme a Bristol teŋɛ poɔ( racism in Bristol) O da taa la bonyɔgere mine BBC1 deme na da ko o ka o de kaara ne a noba: I Want Your Sex (1991), meŋ da e la a o yelnyɔgeraa kaŋa o naŋ da taa kyaare a o toma yɛlɛ. A ne a Voluntary Service Overseas a ko ITV a yuoni 2002.

Badoe meŋ da Sɛgesɛgerɛ o nyɔvore poɔ, o da sɛgerɛ la deɛbaŋ, aseŋ; True Murder, ba da eŋ o a daa poɔ, a London Jonathan Cape a yuoni 2009. Ba da la leɛ kaa la a gane ŋa "True Murder in The Africa Report," Zagba Oyortey meŋ da manne la a "a rich complex of wonder, loss, friendship ane prescience from the viewpoint of Ajuba, an African girl transposed from her idyllic home in Ghana to a boarding school in rural England after the collapse of her parents’ marriage." " Her short story "The Rivals" meŋ da poɔ la a Afereka " African Love Stories (Ayebia, 2006), anaŋ la a Ama Ata Aidoo meŋ da leɛ kaa. O meŋ sɛge la gama ata biiri naŋ baŋ kanne.

Badoe da soŋ la a o deɛne mine poɔ te seŋ; "The Witches of Gambaga", onaŋ la da e neɛ naŋ de niŋɛ kyare ne a deɛne tigre, a yuoni 2010, O da FESPACO 2011 kyɔɔtaare. Badoe's; e la sɛge sɛgesɛgerɛ ane deɛne poɔ, 2014, o da la sɛge la gane ka yuori di "The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo".

A 2016, Badoe da poɔ a tigre deɛne poɔ ka a yelzu da kyaare "Telling Our Stories of Home: Exploring and Celebrating Changing African ane Africa-Diaspora Communities" a Chapel Hill, North Carolina poɔ.

O meŋ da poɔɛ la 2019 " anthology New Daughters of Africa", a Margaret Busby meŋ naŋ da leɛ sɛge bee maale.

Deɛne Mine

• A Time of Hope (1983)
• Crowning Glory (1986)
• Black and White (1987)
• I Want Your Sex (1991)
• Supercrips and Rejects (1996)
• Race in the Frame (1996)
• A Commitment to Care – The Capable State (1997)
• Am I My Brother’s Keeper? (2002)
• Voluntary Service Overseas (2002)
• One to One (2003)
• Secret World of Voodoo: Africa – Coming Home (2006)
• Honorable Women (2010)
• The Witches of Gambaga (2010)
• The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo (2014)

O Zi-Peɛre Mine

• True Murder (Jonathan Cape, 2009)
• A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2017)
• The Secret of the Purple Lake (Cassava Republic Press, 2017), five interlinked stories
• Wolf Light (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2019)
• Lionheart Girl (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2021)