![]() Bringing Aidoo’s fiction into academic conversations aids in opposing a singular understanding of modernity and pushes for a less euro-centric presentation of modernist studies. Aidoo’s writing is an excellent example of the tension between African and European modernism, drawing heavily upon cultural difference and the lasting legacy of colonialism within the power structures of West African societies. Aidoo is an accomplished Ghanaian writer as well as an academic and political activist she also held the role of Ghanaian Minister of Education for 18 months from 1982-83. In the short novels Our Sister Killjoy (1977) and Changes (1991), food is used as a metaphor through which author Ama Ata Aidoo communicates the health of relationships and the cultural differences between her characters . ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘relationships are described not as people joined by blood, but those who feed one another’ Shirin Edwin ![]()
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