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          Yaba Badoe is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker and writer.

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          Yaba Badoe

          Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker (born 1954)

          Yaba Badoe (born 1954)[1] is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author.[2]

          Career

          Yaba Badoe was born in 1954 in Tamale, northern Ghana.[3] She left Ghana to be educated in Britain at a very young age.[4] A graduate of King's College, Cambridge, Badoe worked as a civil servant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ghana,[4] before beginning her career in journalism as a trainee at the BBC.[5] 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.[6] 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 a