Two Thousand Seasons (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ayi Kwei Armah
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Epic
- Time of Work: 1000-1900
- Setting: Western Sudan, Ghana, and elsewhere in Africa
- Genres: Long fiction, Epic
- Subjects: Culture, History, Africa or Africans, Tradition, Folkloric or magical people, Colonies or colonization, Race, Slavery or slaves, Revolutions, Death or dying, Rulers, Zombies or living dead
- Locales: Ghana, Africa, Sudan
Characters Discussed
The narrator, an omnipresent griot (poet- historian) and the voice of traditional African culture, specifically that of Ghana. Masculine in tone but speaking in the first person plural (“we”), the narrator is confident in his remembrance and in his interpretation of Anoa’s prophecies as he traces the migration of his people from the deserts of western Sudan to present-day Ghana. In recalling the collective experience and the principles of “the way,” reciprocity and compassionate mutual respect, he also offers vivid, intimate, and detailed...
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