Word: koomson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something less than the size and the meaning of flying ants." Relentlessly staging a Job-like trial-by-humiliation, Armah daubs "the man" with spit, phlegm and sweat. Rot and stink-the look and smell of corruption-rise up from every page. It is a classmate, Koomson, who perfumes all the putrefaction with the sweet smell of his success as a self-serving official of the new regime...
When the regime runs into a counterrevolution, Armah allows his anti-hero the magnanimous, near-heroic gesture of saving Koomson's life. But even here the author compels him to tunnel out of a latrine...
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