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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985
Ama Ata Aidoo was born in 1942 in Abeadzi Kyiakor, Ghana. A poet, novelist and playwright, Aidoo attended the Wesley Girls High School and the University of Ghana, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1964. As an undergraduate student, she was invited to the University of Ibidan’s African Writers Workshop, where she met and was influenced by the writers Langston Hughes, Chinua Achebe, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Wole Soyinka, and Christopher Okigbo. Her play The Dilemma of a Ghost _was published in 1965 to critical acclaim. She is the author of several novels, plays and collections of poetry, including _No Sweetness Here (Longman, 1970), Anowa _(Longman, 1970), _Our Sister Killjoy, Or, Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint _(Longman, 1977), Birds and Other Stories_ (1987), Changes (Heinemann, 1991), An Angry Letter in January and Other Poems (Dangaroo Press, 1992), The Girl Who Can and Other Stories (1997), Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories (Ayebia Clark Publishing, 2012), and After the Ceremonies: New and Selected Poems (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). In 1974, she became a fellow in creative writing at Stanford University, where
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Moving toward a sustainable green revolution in sub-Saharan Africa
Posted on January 29, 2025 by FAC ICE Team - APRA blog, FAC blog
Written by: Keijiro Otsuka, T. S. Jayne, Yukichi Mano, Kazushi Takahashi
Sub-Saharan Africa struggles to achieve a sustainable green revolution, with cereal yields far behind other regions. This blog highlights the need for integrated soil fertility management, improved cultivation practices, and tailored strategies for maize and rice. It underscores the importance of investing in adaptive research and extension systems to boost productivity, ensure food security, and build resilience to climate challenges.
Much of the developing world has now benefited from a ‘green revolution’ with rapid growth in cereal yields. Yet sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to lag behind. Cereal yields in SSA are far below all other regions of the world, and this yield gap is continually widening. Although cereal yields are not direct welfare indicators, they profoundly influence individual, household, and national welfare in agrarian societies.
International organisations supporting African development are in danger of losing sight of the primacy of sustainableagricultural productivity growthin transforming food systems in a way that achieve