Amma Darko (1956 - ) is an African writer. Image File history File linksMetadata Amma_Darko. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Amma_Darko. ...
She was born in Tamale, Ghana, and grew up in Accra. She studied in Kumasi, where she received her diploma in 1980. Then she worked for the Science and Technology Center in Kumasi. During the eighties, for some time in Germany. She has since returned to Accra. A meal of a tamale and squash soup A tamale or tamal (from Nahuatl tamalli) is a traditional Mexican food that begins with a corn meal dough called masa (or a masa mix such as Maseca) mixed with water. ... Accra, population 1,970,400 (2005), is the capital of Ghana. ... Kumasi is the capital city of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. ...
Her novels illustrate everyday life in Ghana. Her first novel, “Beyond the Horizon,” was originally published in German. Her most recent novels, “Faceless" and "Not without flowers",” were published in Ghana.
AmmaDarko fällt, in der neueren deutschen Literaturwissenschaft wie auch in der Komparatistik englischsprachiger post-kolonialer Literaturen, quasi „durch die Raster“ und verdient eben deshalb genauere Betrachtung.
AmmaDarko Janós Riesz unterteilt im Handbuch „Interkulturelle Literatur in Deutschland“, herausgegeben von Carmine Chiellino, die schwarzafrikanische Literatur Deutschlands in vier Gruppen und zeigt damit die Heterogenität dieser „Gruppe“: Dies sind 1.
der Ver.) afrikanischen Autor/innen“.5 AmmaDarko verbrachte in den 80er Jahren 6 Jahre ihres Lebens in Deutschland und versuchte vergeblich, Asyl zu erhalten.
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