AYI KWEI ARMAH

Ayi Kwei Armah, from Ghana, shocked the world in 1968 with the publication of his scarifying novel, The beautyful ones are not yet born. The “intense despair” of this powerful work ensured it soon became an “African classic’ with the wholesale condemnation of corruption in particular espoused.

He went on to write many other acclaimed books, mostly novels – including Fragments, Two thousand Seasons, The Healers, The Eloquence of the Scribes, Osiris Rising, and Why Are We So Blest?


Studies:

•The novels of Ayi Kwei Armah : a study in polemical fiction by Robert
Fraser 

•Ayi Kwei Armah's Africa : the sources of his fiction by Derek Wright 

•Ayi Kwei Armah, radical iconoclast : pitting imaginary worlds against
the actual by Ode Ogede

•The rot of the land and the birth of the beautyful ones : the world
of Ayi Kwei Armah's novels by K. E Yankson 

•An African focus : a study of Ayi Kwei Armah's narrative
Africanization by Leif Lorentzon

•The novels of Ayi Kwei Armah by K Damodar Rao

•Ayi Kwei Armah's novels by Kofi E Yankson

•Ayi Kwei Armah : the telling of the way by Olawale Awosika

•L'imaginaire dans l'écriture d'Ayi Kwei Armah : l'évolution d'une
forme by Philip Whyte