OUR SISTER KILLJOY, or reflections from a black-eyed squint

174pp., paperback, Reprint, Faber, London, (1977) 2025

ISBN: 9780571388004

Foreword by Ayesha Harruna Attah.

Ama Ata's debut novel, written in prose poetry.

Sissie leaves Ghana for the first time to study in Europe - and is thrown into the continent's "heart of whiteness, observing the strange customs of the natives."

"A wondrous discovery ... fantastic sly wit and humour ... I was stunned by the believability of her characters" Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Purple Hibiscus

"A treasure: one of the works that inspired my own literary journey." Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of Nervous Conditions

Ama Ata Aidoo was born in 1940 in Saltpond, Ghana. She obtained a degree in English from the University of Ghana and taught at universities in Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya and the USA. In 2000 she established the Mbaasem Foundation to support and promote the work of African women writers. She is the author of the novels Changes (1993 Commonwealth Writers Prize, Africa Division), two plays, and the poetry collection Someone talking to Sometime (1987 Nelson Mandela Prize). Aidoo died in 2023.