She studied in Kumasi, where she received her diploma in 1980. She was born in Tamale, Ghana, and grew up in Accra. If you are interested, please contact Sub-Saharan publishers: “Not without Flowers” is now available in English. Not without Flowers (Das Lächeln der Nemesis), 2006 Eva Maschke (camera) and Dominique Geisler (cut) were awarded the German Camera Prize 2007.ħ. Roaming Around, Germany 2007, 53 min – A German team produced a film based on the novel “Faceless”. Verirrtes Herz, 2000 (“Stray heart” no English version)Ħ. Spinnweben, 1996 (“Cobwebs” no English version)ģ. Beyond the Horizon (Der verkaufte Traum), 1991Ģ. With a sense for naturalistic detail and humour, Darko explores the vicious circle created by the worst injustice while placing the story into a larger socio-political context.ġ.
Her third novel, Faceless (Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2003) tells the story of street children in contemporary Accra. Her second novel, The Housemaid (Heinemann, 1998), explores the complex relationships in contemporary rural Ghana where modernity, delivered through the media, increasingly penetrates tradition, but finds little nurturing soil for lack of education. The book was ranked among the Top Twelve of the 1995 Feminist Book Festival in Britain. It is the story of a Ghanaian woman who finds herself in a German brothel through a marriage fraud. Her first novel was published in Germany under the title Der Verkaufte Traum (Schmetterling Verlag, 1991) and consequently in English as Beyond the Horizon (Heinemann, 1995). She chose a radical solution to her problem – to write those books. She especially missed books about the experience of ordinary people living in contemporary Ghana. She is married and has three children, so all together there is not as much time for writing as she would like to have.ĭarko had always loved books, but books were hard to find when she was growing up. This work gives her a of inspiration because she deals with interesting cases and people. Now she is living in Accra, the Ghanaian capital. Afterwards she worked for the Technology Consultancy Centre. She studied at the university of Kumasi, where she received her diploma in 1980. From Northern Ghana, she moved years later to the Ashanti Region. It is common in Ghana to name a child after the day it was born. I would be completely satisfied to be perceived simply as a voice. I tell stories and comment on situations. One perceived or labeled as a feminist whatever, is judged to be this aggressive man-hater who at best is a lesbian and who can be as worse as a butcher of masculinity. Feminism is sort of placed in a tight and narrow square box. The context in which the Western world perceives the term does not prevail here. I don’t know where that places me in the writing world’s classifications, but I definitely do have some reservations about carrying the tag of ‘feminist writer’. As an African woman also, I feel inclined toward working around female issues. I am first and foremost a storyteller who feels inspired to create stories out of pertinent issues. Ghanaian Novelist – Amma Darko…By awuraba ModernGhana Online Radio Center…Personality Profiles | 25 January 2008 Faceless has been selected for the official literature list of the West African Examination Council for Senior Secondary Schools and belongs now to the West African school canon.
In 2008, she received the most important literary prize in her country, the Ghana Book Award. For the novel Faceless, she put on dingy clothes and mingled with the inhabitants of the suburb “Sodom and Gomorrha” in Accra. Amma Darko enjoys research and spends a lot of time with interviews and in archives. Afterwards, she travelled to Germany where she stayed from 1981 until 1987 and wrote her first novel, Beyond the Horizon which was published in German. She studied Industrial Design and worked for a year in a center for technological counselling at the University of Kumasi. Amma Darko is a Ghanian writer and researcher.
0 kommentar(er)
