Anowa

Anowa (1970) by Ama Ata Aidoo is a play by Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo that was published in 1970, after Aidoo returned from Stanford University in California to teach at the University of Cape Coast. Anowa is based on a traditional Ghanaian tale of a daughter who rejects suitors proposed by her parents Osam and Badua, and marries a stranger who ultimately is revealed as the Devil in disguise. The play is set in the 1870s on the Gold Coast, and tells the story of the heroine Anowa's failed mar

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"But in the end, they are not people. They become too much like the gods they interpret."

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"A prophet with a locked mouth is neither a prophet nor a man"

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"You will be surprised to know I am going to help him do something with his life."

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"A kind god angered is a thousand times more evil than a mean god unknown."

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"No man made a slave of his friend and came to much himself."

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"People like her are not content to have life cheap, they always want it cheaper."

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"One only stops wearing a hat when the head has fallen off."

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"I cannot be happy if I am going to stop working."

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"It is men who make men mad."

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