LIONHEART GIRL
Coming 14 October 2021
African myth and magic beat at the heart of this fable about witchcraft, superstition…
Yaba Badoe is an award-winning filmmaker and writer.
Yaba Badoe is an award-winning Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker and writer. A graduate of King’s College Cambridge, she has taught in Spain, Jamaica and Ghana. Her short stories have been published in Critical Quarterly, African Love Stories: an anthology, edited by Ama Ata Aidoo, and New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby. Her first novel for Young Adults, A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars, was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2018 and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Award 2018. In 2014, Yaba was nominated for a Distinguished Woman of African Cinema Award.
Books
LIONHEART GIRL
Coming 14 October 2021
African myth and magic beat in the dark heart of this fable about witchcraft, superstition, the bonds we choose and those we cannot.
Born into a family of West African witches, Sheba’s terrified of her mother who can turn into a crow. But like mother, like daughter – magic runs through her blood and Sheba discovers powers of her own.
Her touch can unravel people’s innermost thoughts; their hopes, their fears – their secrets. Sheba too can shape-shift. Through the communion of ancient magic, blood and friendship, she slowly uncovers the murderous truth about her stolen childhood and steels herself for the future.
Library
Films
The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo
The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo explores the artistic contribution of one of Africa’s foremost woman writers, a trailblazer for an entire generation of exciting new talent. The film charts Ama Ata Aidoo’s creative journey in a life that spans 7 decades from colonial Ghana through the tumultuous era of independence to a more sober present-day […]
The Witches of Gambaga
The Witches of Gambaga is a haunting 55-minute documentary film about a community of women condemned to live as witches in Northern Ghana. Made over the course of 5 years, this disturbing expose is the product of a collaboration between members of the 100 strong community of ‘witches’, local women’s movement activists and feminist researchers, […]