Ama Ata Aidoo meets Burna Boy

The late great Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo is revered by schoolkids in Ghana and Nigeria. The superstar Nigerian musician Burna Boy even sampled her voice in his song, “Monsters You Made.” Host Carol Hills fills us in, and offers Burna Boy’s latest single, “Sittin’ on Top of the World” that dropped on June 1.

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