![]() His subsequent novels have continued to address the issues of modern African culture. ![]() Since 1968 Armah has generally lived outside Ghana, and occasionally outside Africa, though remaining a vital figure in African literature. It was a sobering period, in which the early promise of freedom gave way to economic malaise, political corruption, and continued financial dependence on Europe. The work, whose title has an intentional misspelling taken from an inscription on a bus, portrays both the euphoria of independence and the disillusionment that followed in Ghana. His first novel, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born established him as a writer of world renown. A novel set in Ghana in 1965-66 published in English in 1968,Ī young civil servant struggles with political corruption, family pressures, and disillusionment in postcolonial Ghana.Įvents in History at the Time the Novel Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Novel Was Writtenīorn in Ghana in 1939, Ayi Kwei Armah participated in the events that took Ghana from British colony to independent country. ![]()
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