Yaba Badoe
Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Yaba Badoe is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author. Career Yaba Badoe was born in Tamale, northern Ghana. She left Ghana to be educated in Britain at a very young age. A graduate of King's College, Cambridge, 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 BBC. She also was a researcher at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. She has taught in Spain and Jamaica and has worked as a producer and director making documentaries for the main television channels in Britain. Among her credits are: Black and White , an investigation into race and racism in Bristol, using hidden video cameras for BBC1; I Want Your Sex , an arts documentary exploring images and myths surrounding black sexuality in Western art, literature, film and photography, for Channel 4; and the six-part series Voluntary Service Overseas for ITV in 2002.
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- What Makes a Woman A Witch (2005) (19)
- Women in African Literature (1984) (6)
- The Witches of Gambaga: What it Means to be a Witch in the Northern Region of Ghana (2011) (2)
- The dream lover (1993) (1)
- The art of Ama Ata Aidoo (2014) (1)
- African feminist engagements with film (2012) (1)
- Barbara Boswell From the Feminist Africa Editorial Team Speaks to Ghanaian-British Film-Maker, Journalist and Fiction Writer, Yaba Badoe (2003) (0)
- African feminist engagements with film African feminist engagements with film (2018) (0)
- The Revisiting Modernization Short Story Competition (2011) (0)
- Christmas with Aunt Ama (1997) (0)
- What Makes a Woman Woman A Witch (2005) (0)
- Making The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo: An Interview with Yaba Badoe (2018) (0)
- North-South.com A Film by Francois Ducat; 53 minutes; Icarus Films, 2007 (2011) (0)
- Witchcraft and murder : two ingredients in Yaba Badoe’s thriller True Murder (2010) (0)
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