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Closing the Journal's issue are A.R.'s reviews of African writer Avi Kwei Armah's second novel, Fragments, the poetry of Imamu Amiri Baraka's (Leroi Jones) poetry, and Amistad 1, a new journal edited by John A. Williams and Charles F. Harris. Provocative briefs on three crucial elements of contemporary black literature, marked by their intellectual toughness and conciseness, the reviews are another example of "the compassionate yet critical reflection" the Journal promises and provides...
FRAGMENTS by Ayi Kwei Armah. 287 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
Cecil Brown, 26, and Ayi Kwei Armah, 29, have Ivy League backgrounds (Columbia, Harvard), but they are more different than alike. Brown was born in North Carolina, where at 15 he was sharecropping five acres. Armah is a Ghanaian who returned to Africa after college to write. Brown's character, "Mr. Jiveass Nigger," is really named George Washington. A black boy on a trip to Copenhagen, he is so busy hustling the world that he has forgotten whether there is anything inside his put-on. Armah's gentle protagonist, Baako Onipa, is a "been-to"-a Ghanaian...
...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...