AMMA DARKO’S FACELESS: BIOGRAPHY OF AUTHOR; BACKGROUND STUDY; THEMES; SUBJECT MATTER; PLOT AND SETTING
CONTENT
- The Author’s Biography and the Background Study of the Text
- The Plot of the Text
- Subject Matter
- The Setting of the Text
- Themes
The Author’s Biography
Amma Darko is a Ghanaian. She was born in Koforidua, Ghana and grew up in Accra, the capital of Ghana. She had her education in Kumasi where she received her diploma in 1980. Her name ‘Amma’ means Saturday because she was born on Saturday. She worked for the Technology Consultancy Centre. Her first novel was published in a German translation in 1991 and was published in its English original in the Heinemann African Writers Series in 1995 as Beyond the Horizon. In between Beyond the Horizon and Faceless, there is The Housemaid, also published in both German Translations and in the Heinemann African Writers Series in 1998. Her books are on the fate of the deprived in society and the male warped world.
The Background Study of the Text
In Ghana, the male world is twisted and out of place.
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