Our Sister Killjoy (Faber Editions)

About the Author

Ama Ata Aidoo (1942- 2023) was a Ghanaian writer, politician, academic and activist. Born in a Fante royal household, her grandfather was murdered by British neocolonialists and her father was a chief who built their village's first school. Aidoo obtained a degree in English from the University of Ghana and won her first story contest aged 19. She became the first published female African dramatist in 1965; her novel Changes: A Love Story won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1992. She taught at the University of Ghana and University of Cape Coast, then abroad as a Fulbright scholar and writer in residence. She served as Minister of Education in Ghana in the 1980s but resigned when she could not make education free for all. After moving to Zimbabwe in 1983, she developed government curriculums, and in 2002, founded the Mbaasem Foundation for African women writers.

Ayesha Harruna Attah is a Ghanaian-born writer living in Senegal. She was educated at Mount Holyoke College, Columbia University, and New York University. She is the author of the Commonwealth Writers Prize-nominated Harmattan Rain, Saturdays Shadows, The Hundred Wells of Salaga, currently translated into four languages, Zainab Takes New York and The Deep Blue Between, a book for young adults. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Elle Italia, Asymptote and the 2010 Caine Prize Writers' Anthology.