Dec 30, 2009

The Healers | The Healers

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Author: Ayi Kwei Armah
First Published: 1978
Type of Work: Novella
Type of Plot: Historical
Time of Work: 1873-1874
Setting: The Asante empire area and the Cape Coast of Ghana
Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
Subjects: Africa or Africans, Power, personal or social, Politics, Race, Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, Rulers, Medicine, Corruption
Locales: Ghana, Asante empire

Characters Discussed

Densu Ansa (DEHN-sew AHN-sah), a leading youth of Esuano at the age of twenty, an orphan since birth. A critically reflective person, he could have won the chosen-year games of competition and could have become king-elect, but, compassionately, he refused to kill a tethered pigeon in the final shooting contest. Actually, he prefers the work of the ascetic healers to the manipulative world of the court. He escapes the machinations of his evil guardian, Ababio, who would exploit Densu as a figurehead ruler. Densu, choosing truth and honorable service, is...

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The Healers | The Healers

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