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The play centers on the cross cultural marriage of young couple; Ato Yawson, a Ghanaian who recently completed his studies in the United States and returns home, and Eulali, his African American bride. Ghanaian playwright Ama Ata Aidoo expresses the consciousness of the diaspora of Ato Yawson and his wife and the final effort of Yawson’s mother to find a compromise. The husband is caught between the challenging demands of his wife and his family, He feels torn and irresolute as the folkloric ghost in the children’s song in the play. Aidoo has a strong historical and political awareness of Africa’s colonial past and post-colonial present, and the problems facing an African woman in Africa and outside it. She is like a physician, diagnoses the symptoms of the troubled postcolonial age in Africa. In her use of Dilemma tale technique, she raises difficult questions without easy solution leaving her readers to contemplate about. She calls for an action to resolve the painful dilemma of African life in a world of change where the past and present, tradition and modernity suffer a fierce conflict. The aim of the research is to prove that according to the concept of compensation there is neither absolute gain nor absolute loss for with every loss there is again and with every gain there is a loss. Without the concept of compromise the dilemma of diaspora will lead to catastrophic results. |\n| Article history\u003Cbr>Received: December 02, 2017\u003Cbr>Accepted: January 06, 2018\u003Cbr>Published: February 28, 2018\u003Cbr>Volume: 9 Issue: 1\u003Cbr>Advance access: January 2018 |  |\n| Conflicts of interest: None\u003Cbr>Funding: None |  |\n| Key words:\u003Cbr>Dreams, Diaspora, Identity, Dilemma,\u003Cbr>Clash of Cultures, Compromise,\u003Cbr>Compensation |  |\n\nAma Ata Aidoo is one of Africa’s most prolific and versatile writers. She has written plays, short stories, novels, poetry, essays, letters and criticism. Her impressive, innovative and scholarly achievements have been coordinated by a solid political activism that has seen at the forefront of the development of contemporary African feminism (Davies 71) . Aidoois constantly terrified by the colonial experience and its impact on the African minds. She concentrated on the individual suffering and agony of the male in general and female in particular because of the psychological impact of the colonial and post-colonial experience, the things, that according to Tuzyline Jita Allan in her comments on Aidoo’s Anowa“ make Aidoo one of the most ardent voices in the troubled postcolonial age”(147). The critic Helen Gilbert, on the other hand, states that Aidoo’s play, The Dilemma of a Ghost (1965), reestablishes links between Africa and diaspora. It dramatizes the cultural clash between the western values and the native customs as it sheds light on themes like the legacy of the slave trade, the position of women in African society as well as the dynamics of African identity as far as diaspora is concerned (97) . In her introduction to her book African Women Playwrights, Kathy A. Perkins states that “Any an-  \nthology of African female playwrights would be incomplete without Ama Ata Aidoo’s classic piece, The Dilemma of a Ghost... that still resonate more than four decades (7). 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