Rot of the Land and the Birth of the Beautyful Ones The World of Ayi Kwei Armah's Novels

This lecture examines the work of Ayi Kwei Armah, one of Ghana's leading novelists. Armah's novels have two types of souls: diseased and healthy. The author focuses on the nature and causes of the diseased souls who according to Armah, constitute the rot of the African continent. There are critiques of the following novels: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Fragments, Why Are We So Blest, Two Thousand Seasons, and The Healers.Yankson, K. E. is the author of 'Rot of the Land and the Birth of the Beautyful Ones The World of Ayi Kwei Armah's Novels' with ISBN 9789964302603 and ISBN 9964302606.