Author Ama Ata Aidoo, ‘an inspiration to feminists everywhere’, dies aged 81

Ama Ata Aidoo. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images

The Ghanaian writer and academic Ama Ata Aidoo, whose work focused on the modern African woman, has died aged 81.

Ata Aidoo, whose fans included Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, rejected the idea of what she described as a “western perception that the African female is a downtrodden wretch”, said the BBC.