DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2020.v08i01.009

Pages: 48-54

The main objective of this article is to demonstrate that in Ama Ata Aidoo‟s two plays The Dilemma of a Ghost (1965) and Anowa (1970), there are two categories of characters: some who comply with the traditional norms of the Ghanaian society - the conformists - and others who challenge them - the non-conformists. These characters are either displaced or estranged from their own communities or appeared like ghostly figures. Using deconstructionism, the article unearths the conflictual relationships between the traditional and the modern characters born out of the differences in culture and identity. It is also concerned with analyzing how some characters subvert the power and authority of the established system that is torn between tradition and modernity.