A Woman’s Right …
ALBA KUNADU SUMPRIM AMOO-GOTTFRIED is, by all means, a woman on a mission. Her aim is not to invade but, rather conquer the world’s attention with her superb literary and dramatic talents.
Alba has been writing for as long as she can remember and regularly flips through, with a wry smile, the stacks of notebooks that can only be described as the melodrama of her teenage years.
Alba was born and raised in London, U.K., and educated in London and Havana, Cuba. She graduated as one of the top students in her year from the world renowned International School for Film and Television in Cuba, where film makes of international repute, such as Francis Coppola, George Lucas and Spike Lee taught as guest lecturers.
After graduating as a film editor, she returned to London where she worked on several short and independent film projects and danced semi - professionally before relocating to Ghana, where she now earns a living writing screenplays and television programmes, and producing television commercials.
 Her short film, entitled, “The Next Meal”, won her the award of best director, as well as receiving awards for best photography, editing and best male actor in the British ScriptNet 2000 competition.
Alba was a co-presenter and content provider for a Women’s radio magazine programme, entitled, “The Ladies Lounge” on VIBE FM, which ran her first Radio drama, “Without Past, Present or Future”; that Dealt with gender issues.
For the last two years, Alba has been on the writing And editing team of the multiple award writing BBC World Series VOICES radio drama, “Story Story – Voices From The Market”. She is also a writer for The BBC World Series Trust’s television drama, Entitled, “Wetin’ Day?” in Abuja, Nigeria.
Alba’s successful weekly social commentary column – The Imported Ghanaian – has been running for seven years in the Daily Dispatch newspaper, Accra, and her first book, of the same title, accompanied by a series of her cartoons was launched in May 2007. She speaks fluent Spanish, Portuguese, conversational French and very dodgy Italian. She currently lives in Accra, where she is regularly accused of being Senegalese, Malian, Ivorian, Liberian or Zimbabwean; in fact any other nationality but Ghanaian. But, Alba is adamant that she is as Ghanaian as any other … though imported.
THE BOOK !
 With her rose tinted glasses firmly in place, Alba, The Imported Ghanaian deluded herself, believing that she could simply waltz into Kotoka International Airport with a grin like the winning ticket in the national lottery and the band would strike up whilst the jubilant nation screamed, “Akwaaba-o, akwaaba, our sister has returned back to us”.
She returned home thinking she was as Ghanaian as any other and that she would fit in snugly with the skills of a chameleon. The reality proved otherwise as she plunged headfirst into the endurance test of living
Layer by layer, as if peeling an onion, each “coming back home” cultural reality weaves her through a word where you can never be too sure, where an invitation is not exactly an invitation, where you have to die to find out how popular you are, and where BEING A GHANAIAN and BEING GHANAIAN are often two opposing concepts. | 
