Yaba Badoe

Yaba Badoe is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker and writer. She directed The Witches of Gambaga, Fadoa Films 2010, and is co-producing, with Amina Mama, a documentary about the life and work of iconic African writer, Ama Ata Aidoo.

African feminist engagements with film

African feminist filmmakers and theorists reflect on the shifting roles of women working at all levels of the film and media industries on the continent, and the task of making films that challenge the existing fictions that misrepresent and distort women's realities.

By Amina Mama, Yaba Badoe and Salem Mekuria

/ 27 May 2014