Yaba Badoe (born 1955) is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker,
journalist and author.Yaba Badoe was born in Tamale, northern Ghana.
She left Ghana to be educated in Britain at a very young age. A
graduate of King's College, Cambridge, Badoe worked as a civil servant
at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ghana, before beginning her
career in journalism as a trainee at the BBC. She also was a
researcher at the Institute of African Studies at the University of
Ghana. She has taught in Spain and Jamaica and has worked as a
producer and director making documentaries for the main television
channels in Britain. Among her credits are: Black and White (1987), an
investigation into race and racism in Bristol, using hidden video
cameras for BBC1; I Want Your Sex (1991), an arts documentary
exploring images and myths surrounding black sexuality in Western art,
literature, film and photography, for Channel 4; and the six-part
series Voluntary Service Overseas for ITV in 2002.In addition to
making films, Badoe is a creative writer, her first novel, True
Murder, being published in London by Jonathan Cape in 2009. Her short
story "The Rivals" was included in the anthology African Love Stories
(Ayebia, 2006), edited by Ama Ata Aidoo. She also authored children's
book with Title Jigsaw of Fire and Stars
journalist and author.Yaba Badoe was born in Tamale, northern Ghana.
She left Ghana to be educated in Britain at a very young age. A
graduate of King's College, Cambridge, Badoe worked as a civil servant
at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ghana, before beginning her
career in journalism as a trainee at the BBC. She also was a
researcher at the Institute of African Studies at the University of
Ghana. She has taught in Spain and Jamaica and has worked as a
producer and director making documentaries for the main television
channels in Britain. Among her credits are: Black and White (1987), an
investigation into race and racism in Bristol, using hidden video
cameras for BBC1; I Want Your Sex (1991), an arts documentary
exploring images and myths surrounding black sexuality in Western art,
literature, film and photography, for Channel 4; and the six-part
series Voluntary Service Overseas for ITV in 2002.In addition to
making films, Badoe is a creative writer, her first novel, True
Murder, being published in London by Jonathan Cape in 2009. Her short
story "The Rivals" was included in the anthology African Love Stories
(Ayebia, 2006), edited by Ama Ata Aidoo. She also authored children's
book with Title Jigsaw of Fire and Stars
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