The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ayi Kwei Armah
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: A coastal city in Ghana
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, Africa or Africans, Power, personal or social, Politics, Colonies or colonization, Race, Revolutions, Christianity, Ethics, Capitalism, Government, Christ figures or saviors
- Locales: Ghana
Characters Discussed
The man, deliberately given the generality of anonymity, a clerk who works for the nationalized railway system in Ghana. He and his wife, Oyo, and their children live in comparative poverty because of the man’s unflinching determination not to accept bribes but to live on his inadequate salary in a society that finds such behavior incomprehensible. In spite of the temptations that come to him from every side, the constant nagging of his bitter wife, and his own awareness of the hardships his honesty imposes upon his children, he maintains his unalterable...
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