Yaba Badoe
Författare till A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars
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Verk av Yaba Badoe
The Witches of Gambaga 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 88 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1955
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Ghana
- Födelseort
- Ghana
- Bostadsorter
- England, UK
Spain
Jamaica
Ghana - Utbildning
- King's College, Cambridge
- Yrken
- documentary filmmaker
journalist - Kort biografi
- Yaba Badoe is a Ghanaian-British documentary film-maker and journalist. A graduate of King's College, Cambridge, she worked as a civil servant in Ghana before becoming a general trainee with the BBC. She has taught in Spain and Jamaica and is, at present, Visiting Scholar at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, where she is completing a documentary film - The Witches of Gambaga. Her short stories have been published in Critical Quarterly and in African Love Stories, an anthology edited by Ama Ata Aidoo.
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Statistik
- Verk
- 6
- Även av
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 110
- Popularitet
- #176,729
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 4
- ISBN
- 21
- Språk
- 2
Content warnings:
I wanted to like Lionheart Girl a lot more, however, it’s another book listed as fantasy when it is more accurately magical realism. The fantasy elements are wrapped up within realism, hidden in word play rather than just coming out and saying exactly what is happening. It’s exhausting to read at times because I had to try to work out exactly what was being said.
I had thought that this was a book about shapeshifters, or at the very least, witches that could change shape. It’s not, which was disappointing. I enjoyed the folklore and the world building, I just wish the author had come out and said this was this and that was that. It’s explained that there is an evil, yet the evil is never given a name. It’s just danced around.
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