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Name
  
Yaba Badoe

Role
  
Filmmaker

Books
  
True Murder


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Movies
  
The Witches of Gambaga, The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo

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Yaba Badoe (born in 1955) is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author.

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Introducing Yaba Badoe and her debut novel A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars


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 (1987), an investigation into race and racism in Bristol, using hidden video cameras for BBC1; I Want Your Sex (1991), 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.

In addition to making films, Badoe is a creative writer, her first novel, True Murder, being published by in London Jonathan Cape in 2009. Her short story "The Rivals" was included in the anthology African Love Stories (Ayebia, 2006), edited by Ama Ata Aidoo.

Badoe directed and co-produced (with Amina Mama) the documentary film The Witches of Gambaga, which won Best Documentary at the Black International Film Festival in 2010, and was awarded Second Prize in the Documentary section of FESPACO 2011. Her most recent film, launched in 2014, is entitled The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo. In 2016, she participated in Telling Our Stories of Home: Exploring and Celebrating Changing African and Africa-Diaspora Communities in Chapel Hill, NC.

Filmography

  • A Time of Hope (1983)
  • Crowning Glory (1986)
  • Black and White (1987)
  • I Want Your Sex (1991)
  • Supercrips and Rejects (1996)
  • Race in the Frame (1996)
  • A Commitment to Care – The Capable State (1997)
  • Am I My Brother’s Keeper? (2002)
  • Voluntary Service Overseas (2002)
  • One to One (2003)
  • Secret World of Voodoo: Africa – Coming Home (2006)
  • Honorable Women (2010)
  • The Witches of Gambaga (2010)
  • References

    Yaba Badoe Wikipedia


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