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Let's also Read Africa by Africans
Showing posts with label Ghana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ghana. Show all posts
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Truth is bitter: Austin Nwagbara and the ‘Smart Move” of the Ghanaian Education Authority
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Plot Summary of The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah
Across the dirt and chaos that is the city of Accra, we see the man, the central character whose name is obscured throughout the novel. The city, as well as its inhabitants, is presented as irredeemably rotten; not to talk of the cursing nature of the motorists, especially the commercial bus conductors and drivers alike. In short, in the city of Accra, everybody is angry. The man is shown as a man with a job at the Traffic Control Office who is unhappily running off to work that he dreads and loathes.
Monday, April 10, 2017
Biography of Ayi Kwei Armah
Ayi Kwei Armah, one of
Africa’s literary icons, a Ghanaian, was born on 28 October 1939. He was born
in the seaport of West Ghana, Sekondi Takoradi, to Fante-speaking royal
parents from the Ga nation. You know what, Ayi is much
more than a writer. Though he majored as a novelist, he also has written
essays, poems, and short stories.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Thematic Concerns of Ama Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost
Of all African plays, Ama Ata Aidoo’s ranks among the best. Renowned for her ingenious creative prowess and her blend of Afro-centric preoccupations with the Eurocentric underpinnings, Ama Ata Aidoo interrogates daring issues, both historical and contemporary, facing Africa as a continent and Africans as a people. In one of her greatest plays, which also double as her debut, The Dilemma of a Ghost, Aidoo voices out over a number of agitating problems confronting the post-colonial Africa. Taking the lead here in this paper are the issues of education, identity, clash of culture, marriage and of course childbirth; all of these totals the essential popularity accorded this interestingly crafted play.
Marriage in the African Context: Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa
Over the years, marriage has been a major preoccupation of many African writers ranging from the female ones: Buchi Emecheta to Lola Shoneyin to their male counterparts: from Chinua Achebe to Ben Okri; all of these writers, to be candid, employed different styles to express this popular thematic concern through the lens of their varying perspectives and experiences. Uniquely and beautifully too, Ama Ata Aidoo treats this recurrent universal issue in one of her plays – Anowa.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Identity Question in Ama Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost
Since the very beginning of creation, man has always searched for the “self.” For in the words of Bob Marley, the popular Jamaican artiste, “If you don’t know where you’re coming from, how can you know where you’re going to.” It is this notion of self that propels Ama Ata Aidoo to express her concern on the issue of identity in her novel, The Dilemma of a Ghost.
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