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Yaba Badoe (born 1955) is a
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documentary filmmaker, journalist and author.


Career

Yaba Badoe was born in
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northern Ghana The Northern Region is one of the sixteen regions of Ghana. It is located in the north of the country and was the largest of the sixteen regions, covering an area of 70,384 square kilometres or 31 percent of Ghana's area until December 2018 when ...
. She left Ghana to be educated in
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at a very young age.Beti Ellerson
"A Conversation with Yaba Badoe"
African Women in Cinema, 1 September 2011. A graduate of
King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the cit ...
, Badoe worked as a civil servant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ghana, before beginning her career in journalism as a trainee at the
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. She also was a researcher at the
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at the
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. She has taught in
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and
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and has worked as a producer and director making documentaries for the main television channels in Britain."About the Director - Yaba Badoe"
African Film Festival. Among her credits are: ''Black and White'' (1987), an investigation into race and racism in
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, using hidden video cameras for
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; ''I Want Your Sex'' (1991), an arts documentary exploring images and myths surrounding black sexuality in Western art, literature, film and photography, for
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; and the six-part series ''Voluntary Service Overseas'' for
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in 2002. In addition to making films, Badoe is a creative writer, her first novel, ''True Murder'', being published in London by Jonathan Cape in 2009. Reviewing ''True Murder'' in ''
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'', Zagba Oyortey described it as "a rich complex of wonder, loss, friendship and prescience from the viewpoint of Ajuba, an African girl transposed from her idyllic home in Ghana to a boarding school in rural England after the collapse of her parents’ marriage." Her short story "The Rivals" was included in the anthology ''African Love Stories'' (Ayebia, 2006), edited by
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. She has also written three children's books. Badoe directed and co-produced (with Amina Mama) the documentary film ''
The Witches of Gambaga ''The Witches of Gambaga'' is a Ghanaian 2011 documentary film directed by Yaba Badoe and produced by Amina Mama. Plot Women of various communities are accused of being witches by their families and how they fight the struggle of their society a ...
'', which won Best Documentary at the Black International Film Festival in 2010, and was awarded Second Prize in the Documentary section of
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2011. Her most recent film, launched in 2014, is entitled ''
The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo ''The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo'' is a 2014 Ghanaian documentary written and directed by Yaba Badoe. Plot The documentary film gives insight of the life of playwright and novelist Ama Ata Aidoo, coming to a homeland to empower woman despite the challe ...
''. In 2016, she participated i
"Telling Our Stories of Home: Exploring and Celebrating Changing African and Africa-Diaspora Communities"
in Chapel Hill, NC. She is a contributor to the 2019 anthology ''
New Daughters of Africa ''Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present'' is a compilation of orature and literature by more than 200 women from Africa and the African diaspora, ...
'', edited by Margaret Busby.


Filmography

*''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

* ''True Murder'' (Jonathan Cape, 2009) * ''A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars'' (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2017) * ''The Secret of the Purple Lake'' (Cassava Republic Press, 2017), five interlinked stories * ''Wolf Light'' (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2019) * ''Lionheart Girl'' (Zephyr/Head of Zeus, 2021)"Lionhheart Girl"
at head of Zeus website.


References


External links

* Geosi Gyasi
"An Interview with Ghanaian – British Writer, Yaba Badoe"
Geosi Reads, 17 March 2011.

African Women in Cinema, 1 September 2011.
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Telling Our Stories of Home * Karin Sohlgren
"Yaba Badoe - interview on film project on female African Writers with Ama Ata Aidoo"
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