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Transcripts For BBCNEWS HARDtalk 20240705



as a western perception that the african female is a downtrodden wretch . but when you look around the african continent today girls abducted in nigeria, polygamy re introduced in kenya, child marriages and the prevalence of gender based violence how much is there to celebrate about being female in africa? ama ata aidoo, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, zainab. there s a lot of political issues and social affairs in your writings. how much do you see yourself as a writer with a mission? well, now, in retrospect, i suppose i could describe myself as a writer with a mission. but i never was aware that i had a mission when i started to write, you see. it didn t work it doesn t work like that. i maen, i don t sit at my desk and say, now i ve got to depict this, and depict that. no. first of all, i was rather young when i started writing, so i didn t even have any notion of where my would be read, or how, and stuff like that. so it wasn t a conscious decision ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS HARDtalk 20240604 03:40:00

To begin with, we were colonised as africa. we were first conquered, and then colonised. that also applies to african males. yes. well, let me put this point to you. from a very celebrated writer and great admirer of yours, chimamanda ngozi adichie. in fact, she said i occupy the space of a black african happy feminist, and she says she is inspired by you. but this is what she also says. i do find that women in the west have brought into the idea that somehow they are incomplete without a man. women in nigeria she is nigerian may think they are incomplete without children, but not necessarily without a man. yes, well, i know what she is saying. and i would agree with her. but i would also point out to her that, in today s nigeria, in today s ghana, ....

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