Yaba Badoe is an award-winning Ghanaian-British documentary film maker and writer. In 2003 she directed a documentary about Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison, for BBC4. She is the winner of the Best Documentary Award 2010 at the Black International Film Festival in Britain, and 2nd Prize, Documentaries 2011 at FESPACO. In 2014 she completed The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo about the life and work of iconic African feminist writer, Ama Ata Aidoo and was nominated for a Distinguished Woman of African Cinema Award by the Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe.