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Yaba Badoe was born on 1955 in Tamale, northern Ghana, is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker (born 1955). Discover Yaba Badoe's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?
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Documentary filmmaker, journalist and author |
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Tamale, northern Ghana |
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Ghana
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Yaba Badoe Height, Weight & Measurements
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She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Yaba Badoe Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Yaba Badoe worth at the age of 69 years old? Yaba Badoe’s income source is mostly from being a successful filmmaker. She is from Ghana. We have estimated Yaba Badoe's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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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.
Her short story "The Rivals" was included in the anthology African Love Stories (Ayebia, 2006), edited by Ama Ata Aidoo.
She has also written three children's books.
In addition to making films, Badoe is a creative writer, her first novel, True Murder, being published in London by Jonathan Cape in 2009.
Reviewing True Murder in The Africa Report, Zagba Oyortey described it as "a rich complex of wonder, loss, friendship and prescience from the viewpoint of Ajuba, an African girl transposed from her idyllic home in Ghana to a boarding school in rural England after the collapse of her parents’ marriage."
Badoe directed and co-produced (with Amina Mama) the documentary film The Witches of Gambaga, which won Best Documentary at the Black International Film Festival in 2010, and was awarded Second Prize in the Documentary section of FESPACO 2011.
Badoe's most recent film, launched in 2014, is entitled The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo.
In 2016, Badoe participated in the conference-festival "Telling Our Stories of Home: Exploring and Celebrating Changing African and Africa-Diaspora Communities" in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
She is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.
