The Re-making of Africa: Ayi Kwei Armah and the Narrative of an (Alter)-native Route to Development

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dc.contributor.authorAdeoti, Gbemisola
dc.coverage.geographicalNigeriaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-22T12:14:04Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-27T14:59:01Z
dc.date.available2014-08-22T12:14:04Z
dc.date.available2018-10-27T14:59:01Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.departmentEnglishen_US
dc.description.abstractThe paper is a critical exploration of Ayi Kwei Armah's novels, with a view to analysing the author's perception of and responses to Africa's contemporary political history. Using the Beautiful Ones Are not Yet Born (1968) and Osiris Rising (1995) for in-depth study, the paper stresses the trajectory of Armah's philosophical reflections on 'the trouble with Africa' as it relates to governance and development. The study is premised on a theoretical assumption that African literary arts, oral and written, are capable of generating the necessary stimuli for change. In its fictiveness, literature proffers different perspectives of existential problems and their solutions. A politically engaged novel, the type that Armah often writes, is an apt canvas for paradigmatic interactions of contending ideas and social forces.en_US
dc.facultiesArtsen_US
dc.format.filetypePDFen_US
dc.identifier.citationAdeoti, Gbemisola (2005). The Re-making of Africa: Ayi Kwei Armah and the Narrative of an (Alter)-native Route to Development. Africa Media Review, 13(2).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2653
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.pages.totalpages15en_US
dc.subjectAfrican Literatureen_US
dc.subjectPost-Colonial Literature and Developmenten_US
dc.subjectAyi Kwei Armahen_US
dc.titleThe Re-making of Africa: Ayi Kwei Armah and the Narrative of an (Alter)-native Route to Developmenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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