Overview
by Paul Lothane
"Each thing that goes away returns and nothing in the end is lost. The great friend throws all things apart and brings all things together again. That is the way everything goes and turns around. That is how all living things come back after long absences, and in the whole great world all things are living things. He will return".
- from FRAGMENTS
The
beautyful ones are not yet born. "The man's lack
of a name irritates Achebe...Reminding him of the best manner of existentialist
writing".
Why
are we so blest? "Armah's account (of Prof
Jefferson's impotence) lacks the faintest tincture of that compassion which
usually accompanies recognition of
tragic facts".
tragic facts".
"Solo in Why
are we so blest? and Baako in Fragments
are both heirs to the 19th century Romantic tradition of artistic isolation...
"In Two
Thousand Seasons, Armah resolves this by envisaging social contact of the
artist in traditional African community 'hearers, seers, imaginers, thinkers like griots, ijala singer, Ewe lyricist etc'".
Two
Thousand Seasons. "Such willful blinkering strikes
one as unacceptable" "The humane sensibility tends to recoil..."
- W Soyinka.
Ayi
Kwei Armah's Works
The
beautyful ones are not yet born
Fragments
Why
are we so blest?
Two
thousand Seasons
The
Healers
Osiris
Rising
KMT:
In the house of life
The
Eloquence of the Scribes
Hieroglyphics
for Babies
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