Word: ghanaian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BEAUTYFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN, by Ayi Kwei Armah. A Ghanaian novelist's parable about man's struggle for liberty and dignity, staged in post-revolutionary West Africa...
...BEAUTYFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN, by Ayi Kwei Armah. A Ghanaian novelist's parable about man's struggle for liberty and dignity, staged in post-revolutionary West Africa...
...Kwei Armah, 28, is a young Ghanaian novelist whose heart breaks in a jerry-built hell of token down payments on infinite desires. The saving grace for readers is that Harvard-educated Armah is an artist right to his sizzling nerve ends. In this brilliant little novel, he takes the small, smoldering resentments of West Africa's perennially shortchanged people and explodes them into a crackling protest against the whole of human suffering...
...Nkrumah continues to broadcast to Ghana from exile in Guinea. Ghanaian police have raised the proffered reward for his capture from...
...carried by police. Caught in nearby Nigeria and flown to Accra on a Ghana air force plane, he was on his way to prison-and almost surely to death. The cage in which he rode had been especially designed and constructed to contain a greater prize: the erstwhile Ghanaian ruler, Kwame Nkrumah, who before his overthrow a year ago, called himself "the Christ of our day" and "the Conqueror of imperialism...