Career
She left Ghana to be educated in Britain at a very young age. A graduate of King"s College, Cambridge, Badoe worked as a civil servant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ghana, before beginning her career in journalism as a trainee at the British Broadcasting Corporation. 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.
Among her credits are: Black and White, an investigation into race and racism in Bristol, using hidden video cameras for BBC1.
I Want Your Sex, an arts documentary exploring images and myths surrounding black sexuality in Western art, literature, film and photography, for Channel 4. And the six-part series Voluntary Service Overseas for Independent Television. In addition to making films, Badoe is a creative writer, her first novel, True Murder, being published by Jonathan Cape in 2009.
Her most recent film, launched in 2014, is entitled The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo.
