Jan 3, 2010

Two Thousand Seasons | Two Thousand Seasons

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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

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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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Two Thousand Seasons | Two Thousand Seasons

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