THE DILEMMA OF A GHOST by Ama Ata Bidee NewNork : Longman, (Vos 1-53.To the memory of Papa Characters _xro vawsoN: [Ebow] A young Ghanaian graduate EULALIE VAWSON (nde RUSH: Afro-American graduate st kon [Mami] Ato" mother owka: Hissister Nana: His grandmother faxvent: His elder aunt Mansa: His younger aunt peru: His elder uncle AAKROMA: His younger uncle ISTWOMAN Neighbours ov) Two children ina dream. The boy being the cine} ghost of At’ former self ‘The Bird of the Wayside ‘The Dilemma of ¢ Ghost was first presented by the Students! ‘Theatre, Legon, on the 12th, 13th and 4th of March, 1964, atthe Open-Air Theatre, Commonwealth Hall, University of Ghana, Legon.‘The action takes place inthe courtyard of the newest wing of the Odumna Clan house, Iris enclosed on the right by a wall ‘of the old building and both at the centre and on the left by the walls of the new wing. At the right-hand corner door Tinks the courtyard with a passage that leads into the much bigger courtyard ofthe old house to de middle eet wall there isa door leading into the new rooms. A terrace ‘runs round the two sides of the new sector. Tn the foreground isthe path which links the roads leading tothe river, the farm and the market.