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The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa

by Ama Ata Aidoo · 1987

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Two dramas depict the stories of a man who returns to his native Ghana with his sophisticated American wife, and a young woman who marries the man she loves, against her parents' wishes

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Genre
literary fiction
Themes
theatre
Setting
1980safrica
Audience
adult
Form
plays

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