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	African women writers' centre	9 March 2005

Ama Ata Aidoo at the Mbassem women writers centre

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Ama Ata Aidoo is one of Ghana's leading writers

Ama Ata is a playright, poet and novelist, and has now set up Mbassem, an African women writers' centre in Accra.

She wants to give women the space and time to think and write: in the words of Virginia Wolfe, "a room of one's own".

Ama Ata talks to Jenni about Ghana's colonial past and her hopes for the future.

Poems were taken from:

An Angry Letter in January
By Ama Ata Aidoo
Published by Dangaroo Press
ISBN: 1 871049 27 X

Ama's latest short story published in Britain, in Wasafiri Magazine, issue no. 42, Summer 2004

www.wasafiri.org

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