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But how can I help being so serious? Eh, my Love, what positive is there to be, when I cannot give voice to my soul and still have her heard? Since so far, I have only been able to use a language that enslaved me, and therefore, the messengers of my mind always come shackled?1
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Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister Killjoy (Harlow, Essex: Longman Drumbeat, 1981) p. 112. All page references are to this edition.
Ama Ata Aidoo, ‘Ghana: To be a Woman’ in Sisterhood is Global, ed. Robin Morgan ( New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984 ) p. 262.
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Chetin, S. (1993). Reading from a Distance: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy. In: Wisker, G. (eds) Black Women’s Writing. Insights. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22504-0_9
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