Plot · Critical reception

This book speaks volumes of the nature of a society that has been decimated by the repressive rule of an entirely different culture. Ayi Kwei Armah weaves ...

The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born is a novel set during the last days of the Nkrumah government in Ghana. It's about a man resisting corruption, quixotically ...

It tells the story of an unnamed man, referred to as simply “the man,” who struggles to reconcile himself to life in a new political order. Much of the book's ...

A beginners' guide to the fundamentals of the Dru meditation technique, a method for soothing the mind and relaxing the emotions. The programme includes six ...

Oct 29, 2022 · The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Ayi Kwei Armah's debut novel (published in 1968), owes its title to the misspelled inscription on a bus ...

THE LITERARY WORK. A novel set in Ghana in 1965-66; published in English in 1968,. SYNOPSIS. A young civil servant struggles with political corruption, ...

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 ...

By stating that this phrase “might not hold true for much longer,” Akunyili suggests that people who are willing to stand up to corruption have been born and ...