When Ato returns to Ghana from his studies in the US, he brings with him a sophisticated black American wife. But their hopes of a happy marriage are soon confounded by both African and Western responses to the shared inheritance of the slave trade. Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo's seminal play about the legacy of the slave trade to commemorate fifty years since Ghana's Independence and the Bi-Centenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.
Creatives/Company
Author: Ama Ata Aidoo Producer: National Theatre of Ghana Company: Border Crossings
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