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Original Title:	The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (African Writers)
ISBN:	0435905406 (ISBN13: 9780435905408)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Ghana

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

Ayi Kwei Armah

Paperback | Pages: 191 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 2495 Users | 178 Reviews

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Title	:	The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Author	:	Ayi Kwei Armah
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 191 pages
Published	:	October 23rd 1989 by Heinemann Educational Books (first published January 1st 1969)
Categories	:	Cultural. Africa. Fiction. Western Africa. Ghana. Literature. African Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction

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A railway freight clerk in Ghana attempts to hold out against the pressures that impel him toward corruption in both his family and his country. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the novel that catapulted Ayi Kwei Armah into the limelight. The novel is generally a satirical attack on the Ghanaian society during Kwame Nkrumah’s regime and the period immediately after independence in the 1960s. It is often claimed to rank with "Things Fall Apart" as one of the high points of post-colonial African Literature.

A quote from Chapter 6:

"And where is my solid ground these days? Let us say just that the cycle from birth to decay has been short. Short, brief. But otherwise not at all unusual. And even in the decline into the end there are things that remind the longing mind of old beginnings and hold out the promise of new ones, things even like your despair itself. I have heard this pain before, only then it was multiplied many, many times, but that may only be because at that time I was not so alone, so far apart. Maybe there are other lonely voices despairing now. I will not be entranced by the voice, even if it should swell as it did in the days of hope. I will not be entranced, since I have seen the destruction of the promises it made. But I shall not resist it either. I will be like a cork. It is so surprising, is it not, how even the worst happenings of the past acquire a sweetness in the memory. Old harsh distresses are now merely pictures and tastes which hurt no more, like itching scars which can only give pleasure now. Strange, because when I can think soberly about it all, with out pushing any later joys into the deepr past, I can remember that things were terrible then. When the war was over the soldiers came back to homes broken in their absence and they themselves brought murder in their hearts and gave it to those nearest them. I saw it, not very clearly, because I had no way of understanding it, but it frightened me. We had gone on marches of victory and I do not think there was anyone mean enough in spirit to ask whether we knew what we were celebrating. Whose victory? Ours? It did not matter. We marched, and only a dishonest fool will look back on his boyhood and say he knew even then that there was no meaning in any of it. It is so funny now, to remember that we all thought we were welcoming victory. Or perhaps there is nothing funny here at all, and it is only that victory itself happens to be the identical twin of defeat. "

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All the Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born, by Ayi Kwei Armah, is an excellent read and the second-best book I read all year, after Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.Armah wrote this novel in 1968, only eleven years after Ghana got its independence, and he is often considered to be from the "second generation" of African writers. The first generation wrote around the time of independence and was filled with optimism. Things went bad quickly, though, as Armah's book shows.The story follows an

I Was forced to read it because it was my literature copy. the first 10 pages were the boring ever. the progress was slow but at the end i liked the story.

I did not know what to expect from this one. As it turns out, its quite a good literary book, although its tone is poorly represented by its cover; picture instead a dark road strewn with litter, under a cloudy sky, lined by buildings in various stages of collapse, and youll have a better idea of what to expect.This book is set in Ghana in the 1960s, and is about corruption. It follows the unnamed third-person narrator, a railroad clerk, who is one of the few who refuses to take bribes--which

A true classic of African post-colonial litterature, written long ago (1960s) but still relevant today: many citizens nowadays are equally desperate about personal opportunities to have a better life and about rampant corruption that erodes the cohesion of societies.Though it took me some chapters to get into the story, I started appreciating the novel and the main character (the man) more and more while progressing towards the end. Though the man is considered by society (and by his loved ones)

The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born is a novel set during the last days of the Nkrumah government in Ghana. Its about a man resisting corruption, quixotically in the view of most of those around him. The scathing portrayal of a corrupt society is all the sharper because of the contrast with the optimism that came with independence; its a novel, among other things, about the loss of hope. A kind of Animal Farm of post-colonialism.Its a slim book, less than 200 pages, but it took me quite a long

It's been a while since a book so thoroughly depressed me. Perhaps its because it hits close to home; I am half-Ghanaian.But certainly it is also the mood of the novel. Ayi Kwei Armah is masterful in creating this distinctive ambience with his small but meaningful choices. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born was written in existentialism's heydays the 1960s but the particularity of the main character's experience helps it stand out from other works published at the time. It is so Ghanaian in

I don't even know if I should/can rate this book. Up until the last 50 or so pages, it took a lot of effort to slog through. Ayi Kwei Armah set out to take a stand, make a political statement, and it is evident in every part of the book. A lot of similes, a lot of hyperbole, painful description, and LOTS of pontification. It is annoying, and it makes the book painful to read, but it also gets his point across very well. He wrote this book in 1968, 11 years after Ghana's independence, when the