The Colonial Legacy in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Novel “The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born”
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2017-06
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The purpose behind the present study is to depict the changes in Ghana brought by colonialism and to describe the situations of the Ghanaian society as reflected by Armah's novel The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. The work casts light on the characteristics of people, their conditions and life before and after the British colonialism and the way in which Armah described such situation in his writings. Besides, this dissertation discusses post-colonialism as an era of struggle and challenges for the Ghanaians and how it is later represented in the African literature. As a case study, Armah's novel The Beautyful Once Are Not Yet Born had been the appropriate writings to portray the African condition after independence. Consequently, the post-colonial theory provides an appropriate literary device for a better understanding of the work. For a future prospective, this study can illustrate more information about Armah's literary work regarding how post-independent societies are depicted in the novel. Moreover, the results show that the British colonialism had negatively affected post colonial societies in Ghana and Africa as a whole.
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affected post colonial societies - Ghana - Africa- whole.