Yaba Badoe

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Yaba Badoe (wɔwoo no afe 1955) yɛ Ghana - Britania documentary film yɛfo, nsɛm ho amanneɛbɔfo ne ɔkyerɛwfo.

Adwuma[sesa]

Wɔwoo Yaba Badoe wɔ Tamale, Ghana atifi fam .[1] Ɔfirii Ghana kɔsuaa adeɛ wɔ Britain wɔ ne mmofraase pɛɛ.[2] Ɔyɛ obi a wawie King's College, Cambridge, Badoe yɛɛ adwuma sɛ ɔman dwumayɛni wɔ Ministry of Foreign Affairs wɔ Ghana,[2] ansa na ɔrefi n'adwuma ase wɔ nsɛm ho amanneɛbɔ mu sɛ obi a ɔretete no wɔ BBC .[3] Na ɔyɛ nhwehwɛmufo nso wɔ Afrika Adesua Asoɛe a ɛwɔ Ghana Sukuupɔn mu . Wakyerɛ ade wɔ Spain ne Jamaica na wayɛ adwuma sɛ ɔyɛkyerɛfo ne ɔkwankyerɛfo a ɔreyɛ nsɛm a wɔakyerɛw ama television dwumadibea atitiriw a ɛwɔ Britain no.[4] Nea ɔde ayɛ adwuma no bi ne: Black and White (1987), nhwehwɛmu a wɔyɛe wɔ mmusuakuw ne mmusua mu nyiyim ho wɔ Bristol, a wɔde video mfoninitwa mfiri a ahintaw dii dwuma maa BBC1 ; I Want Your Sex (1991), adwinni ho kyerɛwtohɔ a ɛhwehwɛ mfonini ne anansesɛm ahorow a ɛfa abibifo nna ho wɔ Atɔe Famfo adwinni, nhoma, sini ne mfoninitwa mu, ma Channel 4 ; ne Voluntary Service Overseas a ɛwɔ afa asia a wɔde maa ITV wɔ afe 2002.[4]

Wɔ siniyɛ akyi no, Badoe yɛ adebɔ ho ɔkyerɛwfo, n'ayɛsɛm a edi kan, True Murder, a Jonathan Cape tintimii wɔ London wɔ afe 2009.[5] Bere a Zagba Oyortey resan ahwɛ True Murder mu wɔ The Africa Report mu no, ɔkaa ho asɛm sɛ “anwonwade, adehwere, adamfofa ne prescience a ɛyɛ fɛ a ɛyɛ den fi Ajuba, Afrikani abeawa bi a ɔdan fii ne fie a ɛyɛ fɛ wɔ Ghana kɔɔ sukuu a wɔtra mu wɔ England nkuraase akyi no adwene mu n'awofo aware a ɛhwee ase." Wɔde n'asɛm tiawa "The Rivals" kaa nhoma a wɔaboaboa ano a wɔfrɛ no African Love Stories (Ayebia, 2006), a Ama Ata Aidoo na ɔhyehyɛɛ no ho.[6] Ɔakyerɛw mmofra nhoma abiɛsa nso.[7]

Badoe na ɔkyerɛɛ kwan na ɔne Amina Mama boom yɛɛ (ne Amina Mama ) sini a ɛfa nsɛm ho a wɔfrɛ no The Witches of Gambaga, a edii nkonim wɔ Nkyerɛwee a Ɛsen Biara wɔ Abibifo Amanaman Ntam Sini Afahyɛ mu wɔ afe 2010 mu, na wɔmaa no Nkonimdi a Ɛto so Abien wɔ Nkyerɛwee fa a ɛwɔ FESPACO 2011 [8] Ne sini a ɔyɛe nnansa yi ara, a wɔde sii hɔ wɔ afe 2014 mu no, wɔato din The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo .[9][10]

Wɔ afe 2016 mu no, ɔde ne ho hyɛɛ "Yɛn Fie Ho Nsɛm a Yɛka: Nhwehwɛmu ne Afahyɛ a Ɛresakra Afrika ne Afrika-Atubrafoɔ Mpɔtam" mu wɔ Chapel Hill, NC.

Ɔyɛ obi a ɔboaa 2019 nhoma a wɔaboaboa ano New Daughters of Africa, a Margaret Busby na ɔhyehyɛɛ no .[11]

Sini ho mfoniniyɛ[sesa]

  • 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)

Nhoma ahorow a wɔahyehyɛ[sesa]

  • True Murder (Jonathan Cape, 2009)
  • A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2017)[12]
  • The Secret of the Purple Lake (Cassava Republic Press, 2017), five interlinked stories[13]
  • Wolf Light (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2019)[14]
  • Lionheart Girl (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2021)[15]
  • True Murder (Jonathan Cape, 2009)
  • A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2017)[12]
  • The Secret of the Purple Lake (Cassava Republic Press, 2017), five interlinked stories[13]
  • Wolf Light (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2019)[14]
  • Lionheart Girl (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2021)[15]

Nsɛm a wɔde gyinaa so[sesa]

  1. "Film: The Witches Of Gambaga | Transcript", Journeyman TV.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Beti Ellerson, "A Conversation with Yaba Badoe", African Women in Cinema, 1 September 2011.
  3. Nana Fredua-Agyeman, "46. True Murder by Yaba Badoe - About the author", ImageNations Promoting African Literature, 18 November 2013.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "About the Director - Yaba Badoe", African Film Festival.
  5. Joanna Hines, True Murder review, The Guardian, 8 August 2009.
  6. "Yaba Badoe’s African Love Story, 'The Rival'", Buried in Print, 16 November 2011.
  7. Nicolette Jones, "Children’s book of the week: A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe", The Sunday Times, 11 March 2018.
  8. "The Witches of Gambaga - A film by Yaba Badoe", official website.
  9. Shakira Chambas and Sionne Neely, "The Art of AMA ATA AIDOO: Documentary Film Launch", African Women's Development Fund, 26 September 2014.
  10. "The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo - a film by Yaba Badoe", official website.
  11. Olatoun Gabi-Williams, "After seminal anthology, Busby celebrates New Daughters of Africa", Guardian Arts, The Guardian (Nigeria), 21 April 2019.
  12. 12.0 12.1 "Introducing Yaba Badoe and her debut novel A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars" (YouTube video), 19 April 2017.
  13. 13.0 13.1 Elly Roberts, "Q&A: Writer and Filmmaker Yaba Badoe", Africa In Words, 6 October 2017.
  14. 14.0 14.1 "Wolf Light" at Head of Zeus website.
  15. 15.0 15.1 "Lionhheart Girl" at head of Zeus website.