Ayi Kwei Armah

Ayi Kwei Armah ( born 1939 in Sekondi -Takoradi, Ghana ) is a Ghanaian writer and publisher, who is considered one of the greatest literary talents by Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. In most cases fragmentary told novels he portrays the disillusionment with the corruption in his homeland as well as the conflict between local and foreign way of life. Later he studied in novelistic representations of African history for ways to a new, Europe and America independent social order based on African traditions.

Life

Armah was born in 1939 of Fante -speaking parents in the port city of Sekondi -Takoradi in southern Ghana. In 1959, he left his home to go to Massachusetts in the USA. After completing his schooling there, he attended Harvard University and studied sociology. He then went to Algeria and worked as a translator for the magazine Revolution Africaine. In 1964 he returned to Ghana, worked as a copywriter for Ghana Television and later as an English teacher at the Navrongo School. From 1967 to 1968 Armah was the editor of the magazine Jeune Afrique in Paris. From 1968 to 1970 he studied at New York's Columbia University and earned a degree in " Creative Writing ". Since the 1980s, Armah has lived in Dakar (Senegal ), where he also operated verlegerisch. He also taught at the Teacher 's College, Dar es Salaam (Tanzania ), and Amherst College, Amherst ( Massachusetts) and at universities in Lesotho ( South Africa) and Madison (Wisconsin ).

The beauties are not yet born

Armahs first novel, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born by 1968, often praised as a masterpiece, experienced 1971-1999 four German editions in three different publishers. Boubacar Boris Diop fellow writer referred to it in a review for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung even as " epoch-making " factory. Throughout the novel have taken care with his merciless criticism of the rampant corruption in Ghana when he appears for fierce reactions that clairvoyance of the author will clearly today. The nameless protagonist, a minor official of the railroad, which seeks to preserve his dignity in the midst of decay, an exemplary embodiment of the marginalized opposition had succeeded. The novel deny any " aesthetic filter" targets in this gritty brief, dry records on the essentials. After all, speaking from some of the " humiliated and insulted " a small voice of hope.

Works

  • African Socialism: Utopian or Scientific, 1967 ( presense Africaine 64)
  • The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born, 1968 ( dts. The beauties are not yet born )
  • The Offal Child, 1969 ( short stories)
  • Fragments, 1970 - Pirstaleita ( suom. Seppo Loponen )
  • Why Are We So Blest, 1972 -? Mistä Meille Tämä armo? ( suom. Seppo Loponen )
  • Two Thousand Seasons, 1973
  • The Healers, 1978
  • The Caliban Complex, 1985 ( West Africa, March 18 and 25)
  • The Festival Syndrome, 1985 (West Africa, April 15 )
  • Dakar Hieroglyphics, 1986 ( West Africa, May 19)
  • Doctor Kamikaze, 1989 ( short stories)
  • Osiris Rising, 1995
  • Hieroglyphics for Babies, 2002 ( with Aboubacry Mousa Lam )
  • KTM: In the House of Life, 2002
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