Ayi kwei armah biography of william
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Armah, Ayi Kwei
BORN: , Takoradi, Gold Coast (now Ghana)
NATIONALITY: Ghanaian, Senegalese
GENRE: Fiction
MAJOR WORKS:
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born ()
Fragments ()
Two Thousand Seasons ()
Overview
Ayi Kwei Armah is perhaps the most versatile, innovative, and provocative of the younger generation of postwar African novelists, and like all authors who express extreme
views in their books, he has become a controversial figure in both African and Western critical circles. The controversy has centered exclusively on the works and not on the man, about whom extremely little is known.
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
Childhood Coincided with Ghanaian Independence. Only twice has Armah broken his rule of silence about himself and his work, and it is to these two essays that Western critics owe nearly all of their biographical information about him.
Armah was born in in the coastal city of Takoradi, a seaport of the then-British colony of the Gol
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Book Review: The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah
I first read Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born during my high school days. Back then, the book träffad me as a levande portrayal of post-independence struggles, but its full vikt didn’t entirely sink in. Over the years, however, as inom traveled across the country, witnessing the challenges and contradictions in our kultur, echoes of the book kept återställning av yta in my mind. Today’s situation, with its familiar patterns of corruption, broken promises, and persistent hope, served as a jolt, bringing Armah’s masterpiece back into skarp focus.
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Author Profile - William Saint George
William Saint George is the pen name of Jesse Jojo Johnson, an Entrepreneur-In-Training at Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), a professional photographer and an active blogger.
Five Questions with William:
1. The title of this poem is a reference to Ayi Kwei Armah's novel, "The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born". How does this poem connect, for you, with the subject matter and theme's of Armah's book?
The title of this poem is a deliberate echo of the book you mention. This poem shares the disillusionment with contemporary Ghanaian society expressed in Ayi Kwei Armah's novel.
2. The title and opening lines of the poem suggest that the "lucky ones" will be born one day. When do you think that day will come, and what will the world look like at that time?
I have no answer to that. The poem suggests the "lucky ones" are being held back by God, but it doesn't look to answer when they will come, or