Yaba Badoe
Appearance
Yaba Badoe
Ein sex anaa gender | female ![]() |
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Ein country of citizenship | United Kingdom, Ghana ![]() |
Family name | Badoe ![]() |
Ein date of birth | 1955 ![]() |
Place dem born am | Tamale ![]() |
Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign | English ![]() |
Ein occupation | filmmaker, journalist, writer, novelist, film director ![]() |
Ein field of work | film, documentary film, journalism, literature ![]() |
Employer | University of Ghana ![]() |
Educate for | King's College ![]() |
Notable work | I Want Your Sex, A commitment to care, One to One, The Witches of Gambaga, The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo ![]() |
Award e receive | Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou ![]() |
Dema official website | https://www.yababadoe.com/ ![]() |
Personal pronoun | L484 ![]() |
Yaba Badoe (dem born am for 1955 insyd)[1] be Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist den author.[2]
Ein life matter
[edit | edit source]Badoe dey live insyd Balham, London, plus ein husby, Colin Izod.[3]
Filmography
[edit | edit source]- 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)
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- True Murder (Jonathan Cape, 2009, ISBN 978-0224085021)
- A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2017, ISBN 978-1786695482)[4]
- The Secret of the Purple Lake (Cassava Republic Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1911115311), five interlinked stories[1]
- Wolf Light (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2019, ISBN 978-1786695529)[5]
- Lionheart Girl (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2021, ISBN 978-1789540864)[6]
- Man-Man and the Tree of Memories (forthcoming)
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Words, Africa in (2017-10-06). "Q&A: Writer and Filmmaker Yaba Badoe" (in English). Retrieved 2025-04-29.
- ↑ "An Interview with Ghanaian – British Writer, Yaba Badoe". Geosi Reads. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
- ↑ "About the author", Amazon.
- ↑ "Introducing Yaba Badoe and her debut novel A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars" (YouTube video), 19 April 2017.
- ↑ "Wolf Light" at Head of Zeus website.
- ↑ "Lionhheart Girl" at head of Zeus website.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons get media wey relate to Yaba Badoe.
- Official website
- Geosi Gyasi, "An Interview with Ghanaian – British Writer, Yaba Badoe", Geosi Reads, 17 March 2011.
- "A Conversation with Yaba Badoe", African Women in Cinema, 1 September 2011.
- Facebook Fan Page
- Schedule of events, Telling Our Stories of Home
- Karin Sohlgren, "Yaba Badoe - interview on film project on female African Writers with Ama Ata Aidoo", YouTube video, 13 April 2012.
Categories:
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- CS1 English-language sources (en)
- Commons category link from Wikidata
- 1955 births
- Human
- Ghanaians
- 21st-century British women writers
- 21st-century English novelists
- Academic staff of de University of Ghana
- Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
- Black British women writers
- Black British writers
- Ghanaian emigrants to England
- Ghanaian film directors
- Ghanaian film producers
- Ghanaian novelists
- Ghanaian women children's writers
- Ghanaian women film directors
- Ghanaian women film producers
- Ghanaian women novelists
- Women children's writers
- Women short story writers
- People wey komot Tamale, Ghana