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Yaba Badoe is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author.
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| Born | 1955 (age 69–70) Tamale, northern Ghana |
| Nationality | Ghanaian-British |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Documentary filmmaker, journalist and author |
Yaba Badoe (born 1955) is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author.
Career
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 inv