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Title	:	Our Sister Killjoy
Author	:	Ama Ata Aidoo
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 134 pages
Published	:	August 19th 1997 by Longman (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Poetry. Western Africa. Ghana. Literature. African Literature

Our Sister Killjoy

Ama Ata Aidoo

Paperback | Pages: 134 pages

Rating: 3.84 | 891 Users | 58 Reviews

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Out of Africa with her degree and her all-seeing eyes comes Sissie. She comes to Europe, to a land of towering mountains and low grey skies and tries to make sense of it all. What is she doing here? Why aren't the natives friendly? And what will she do when she goes back home?

Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo's brilliantly conceived prose poem is by turns bitter and gentle, and is a highly personal exploration of the conflicts between Africa and Europe, between men and women and between a complacent acceptance of the status quo and a passionate desire to reform a rotten world. Of her own writing, Ama Ata Aidoo says, "I write about people, about what strikes me and interests me. It seems the most natural thing in the world for women to write with women as central characters; making women the centre of my universe was spontaneous."

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Original Title:	Our Sister Killjoy (Longman African Writers Series)
ISBN:	0582308453 (ISBN13: 9780582308459)
Edition Language:	English

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Amazing how the narrative perspective in this 1977 prose poem is still a strikingly unusual and pertinent commentary on the African encounter with the West on European soil. A very well-written postcolonial text.

This is something I should probably read a few times before trying to get my head around, but it was a pretty enjoyable read. I liked Aidoo's exploration into systems of gender and queerness as they relate to colonial and post-colonial settings.

Ama Ata Aidoo, has done it again, she touches on various issues through the lens of her main character, our sister Sissie. She presents the world through Sissie's squint. I enjoyed reading the book. It's interspersed with verse, and short poems that are succinct and adds a different flavor to the plot. The Ghanaian immigrant's struggle, family relations, and oppression are all dealt with here, sometimes very subtly. Sissie's world view is relevant in contemporary times as they were then when Ama

I wanted to read this book again after reading it in a college course during undergrad and remembering none of it. There were some excellent points in the prose/poetry of this book. Every once in a while a zinger would be thrown out there like a gut punch. However, after A Love Letter I was left feeling underwhelmed. I also wasnt a huge fan of the choppy poetry line breaks that were so frequently used. Maybe Ill try something else by Aidoo and see if I like it more than this book.

Sister Killjoy is travelling and observing the strange customs of the people (like eating cold food in Germany, the loneliness of the people and the shadows of the nazi regime) - but she is also pointing out the racism, sexism, thinly veiled slavery she meets along her way - and the strange (and mostly poor) lives of the brightest of Africans studying in London - and pointing out how they lie about the conditions to those at home, and refusing togo home. But she does this while telling stories

Unsure what to expect, I was pleasantly surprised how this short text piqued my interest. Considering the book is only 134 pages long and the story itself is divided into three shorter stories that evolve around the protagonist (and sometimes feel quite unrelated from each other), it was able to achieve depth of the character and a clear picture of the protagonist's experiences.Having said that, at times I felt a bit left out, since various key pieces of information were not given and there were

I have always loved the word 'killjoy', and I wanted to read this book on that basis alone. It turns out this book found me, as the best books always do. As a Kenyan riding out her second Scandinavian winter in the pursuit of papers, the questions in this book both comforted me and convicted me. I couldn't believe it was published in 1977. Two generations of my family have since made the pilgrimage (Global) North and the story is the same. The vivid, bemused descriptions of interacting with the