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Renowned Ghanaian writer, Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo, has sadly passed away in the early hours of Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The family of the esteemed literary icon announced her demise. Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo, known for her exceptional contributions to African literature, bid farewell after a brief illness. Her passing …

Acclaimed Zimbabwean filmmaker and novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga has been acquitted by the country’s High Court of staging an anti-government protest in 2020, for which she had initially received a six-month suspended jail sentence and a fine. “I can confirm that she has been acquitted,” her lawyer Harrison Nkomo said after …