What do you stand for? 4 Lessons from Ayi Kwei Armah’s ‘The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born’
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is set between 1965’s Passion Week and 25 February 1966 – the day after the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president. The unnamed protagonist, known as the ‘man’ tries to stay ‘clean’ in the heat of corruption and rot that characterised post-independence. My interest is in what […]