A railway freight clerk in Ghana attempts to hold out against the pressures that impel him toward corruption in both his family and his country.

Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born

Armah, Ayi Kwei

Literature & Fiction

Macmillan Pub. Co.

spend weekends quietly in the country

Why Are We So Blest?

Anchor Books

The central story in this book tells of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn.

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

Heinemann

Baako returns to Ghana to try and put the fragments of his life together.

Fragments (African Writers Series)

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (African Writers Series)

Contemporary

A young group inexorably rebels against the forces destroying Africa. By the author of "Fragments" and "The Healers".

Two Thousand Seasons

Per Ankh Pub

The Healers

Fiction. African Studies. THE HEALERS tells a story of the conflict and regeneration focused on replacing toxic ignorance with the healing knowledge of African unity.

Per Ankh

The Narrative: Mourning a lost firend, Lindela, the narrator of KMT, Ayi Kwei Armah's 7th novel, plunges into history, seeking meaning in life's flow. Loving companions - an Egyptolosit and two traditionalists-show her secret hieroglyphics texts left by migrant Egyptian scribes millennia ago. Lindela translates them, old questions animating her search for knowledge of self and society acquire a sharpened urgency: How best can Africa's multimillennial history be envisioned as one continuous stream? Why did the society that invented literacy sink into the misery of illiteracy, ignorance and religion? What creative African values lie buried under the lethal debris of slavery, colonialism, sructrual adjustment and globalization? And why did the ancient scribes call the concept of Ma'at our best promise of regeneration? KMT is the narrative of an African woman's life-quest, and of the answers she uncovers.

Kmt: In The House Of Life

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