Our Sister Killjoy

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. Download Our Sister Killjoy By Ama Ata Aidoo – kino-fada.fr One of the best books I ve read this year Our Sister Killjoy has managed to fill the void I ve been battling constantly grappling with, wrt my conflicting feelings on Afropolitanism , 1st gen Americans, living abroad, assimilation, the real African , moving back to the continent the savior mentality the been tos bring, feminism, loneliness A LOT is explored in this short book and its fucking golden I wish I read this earlier in my life.I don t know if I can even write a full rev One of the best books I ve read this year Our Sister Killjoy has managed to fill the void I ve been battling constantly grappling with, wrt my conflicting feelings on Afropolitanism , 1st gen Americans, living abroad, assimilation, the real African , moving back to the continent the savior mentality the been tos bring, feminism, loneliness A...Ama Ata Aidoo is of my parents generation so I tried, while reading, to imagine back to 1977 when Our Sister Killjoy was first published to consider how black women across the diaspora were writing about their experience Reading this book 40 years after its original publication I find it eerie that dominant Eurocentric attitudes, systems, and languages continue to complicate black identities in the multi voiced ever interrogating dialogue that Ama Ata Aidoo Ghanaian employed in this work Be Ama Ata Aidoo is of my parents generation so I tried, while reading, to imagine back to 1977 when Our Sister Killjoy was first published to consider how black women across the diaspora were writing about their experience Reading this book 40 years after its original publication I find it eerie that dominant Eurocentric attitudes, systems, and languages continue to complicate black identities in the multi voiced ever interrogating dialogue that Ama Ata Aidoo Ghanaian employed in this work Before reading this I had just read Imbole Mbue s Camer...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 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 natives, the poor fit of winter clothes, the not food, the great expectations of...Pretty pleased with this library find It took me a little while to get into because it is novel, poetry, and essay really combined into one, but once my brain adjusted I found myself needing to hear what Sissie had to say Sissie travels around...This creative work, which mixes poetry and prose, speaks to the political and personal violence of European colonialism in Africa I like how it presents Sissie s journey of defining herself as an educated woman of color within a society that has supposedly moved beyond this experience.This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here While attempting to add a new dimension to the many sided story of colonialism, Aidoo seems to accidentally present us with a flat one dimensional girl She gives us Sissie, who is first presented to us as pure, sweet, and naive, but by the end of the work she becomes an angered, exhausted, and jaded woman In writing the previous sentence, I was almost tempted to say that she evolved into a bitter woman, but the truth is, Aidoo does not give us growth or evolution She doesn t present us with While attempting to add a new dimension to the many sided story of colonialism, Aidoo seems to accidentally present us with a flat one dimensional girl She gives us Sissie, who is first presented to us as pure, sweet, and naive, but by the end of the work she becomes an angered, exhausted, and jaded woman In writing the previous sentence, I was almost tempted to say that she evolved into a bitte...almost poetry, almost manifesto, almost a subconscious musing almost a novel.it took me a long time to finish this book, mostly because I inhaled it at first as part of my presentation and then, when I could read it at my own pace I did just that.ama ata aidoo brings up question in Our Sister Killjoy that chimamanda ngozi adichie also wants to ask in Americanah ...I suppose this could be described as a novel in stories and partly in verse It s a beautifully written story about black bodies in foreign read cold, white spaces I was particularly excited to read this because the narrative follows a Ghanaian woman who travels internationally on her own I think thepopular African been to narratives and I do think this fits in with them have male protagonists You would think that no African women travelled alone for education andin the 6 I suppose this could be described as a novel in stories and partly in verse It s a beautifully written story about black bodies in foreign read cold, white spaces I was particularly excited to read this because the narrative follows a Ghanaian woman who travels internationally on her own I think thepopular African been to narratives and I do think t...This book was raw, emotional, and full of clearly defined wisdom and anger I loved it Aidoo articulates the particular situation of Black Africans in a post colonial world in such a unique, accessible way I would recommend this book to ANYONE.This is a book that I think I will have to re read to fully grasp Nevertheless, this was a great read.

• English
• 14 December 2018
Ama Ata Aidoo
• Paperback
• 134 pages
• 0582308453
• Ama Ata Aidoo
• Our Sister Killjoy