Armah, Ayi Kwei (Vol. 136) - Adewale Maja-Pearce （essay date 1993）
Adewale Maja-Pearce （essay date 1993）
SOURCE: “Ayi Kwei Armah and the Harbingers of Death,” in Essays on African Writing, edited by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Heinemann, 1993, pp. 13-23.
[In the following essay, Maja-Pearce discusses the political ideology which infuses Armah's fiction, especially in Why Are We So Blest?]
To be a writer at a time like this, coming from such a people, such deep destruction, the most criminal. Only one issue is worth our time: how to end the oppression of the African, to kill the European beasts of prey, to remake ourselves, the elected servants of Europe and America. Outside that, all is useless; and I am outside.
AYI KWEI ARMAH: Why Are We So Blest?1
Why Are We So Blest? tells the story of Modin, an African student in the United States, who becomes disillusioned with academia, returns to Africa with his white American lover, Aimée, and...
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