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Yaba Badoe


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Yaba Badoe is an award-winning Ghanaian-British documentary film-maker and writer. A graduate of King's College Cambridge, she was a civil servant in Ghana before becoming a general trainee with the BBC. She has taught in Spain and Jamaica and worked as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. Her short stories have been published in Critical Quarterly, African Love Stories, an anthology edited by Ama Ata Aidoo, and Daughters of Africa.
Yaba lives in Balham, London with her husband Colin Izod. ...more

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“You’ve given your heart to her, maybe, but there’s no need to lose your marbles as well.”
― Yaba Badoe, A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars
tags: heart, in-love, marbles, sense
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“Outnumbered and outmanoeuvred by fools! So be it. On one condition – the minute your eggs start to unscramble, the three of you are going to say loud and clear, under my direction: ‘Cobra told us not to do this, but did we listen? Hell no!ʼ”
― Yaba Badoe, A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars
tags: fools, told-you-so
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“Mister, I’m not for sale,’ I say. ‘Never was, never have been, never will be.’ ‘Everyone has a price, young lady.’ ‘What’s yours?’ I reply.”
― Yaba Badoe, A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars
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