The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born

Author: Ayi Kwei Armah

Publisher: Heinemann

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780435905408

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A beginners' guide to the fundamentals of the Dru meditation technique, a method for soothing the mind and relaxing the emotions. The programme includes six short guided meditations designed to instill a sense of profound stillness, quieten and calm a stressed mind and reconnect with the important aspects of life. Each nine-minute meditations is based on one of the elements: Earth, Water, Light, Air and Sky.

The Healers
The Healers

Author: Ayi Kwei Armah

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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This historical novel is set in Ghana. By the author of Fragments and Two Thousand Seasons.

Fragments
Fragments

Author: Ayi Kwei Armah

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9782911928109

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A member of the African elite groping his way out of the background of slavery and colonialism, Baako sees his education as preparation for the lifework of a socially innovative artist. His family, more pragmatic, expects an elite resume to convert into power and wealth in the real world here and now. Unable to harmonize contervailing needs with wider social aspirations, both family and individual drift toward confrontation and inexorable loss. -- From back cover.

The Eloquence of the Scribes
The Eloquence of the Scribes

Author: Ayi Kwei Armah

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13:

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This memoir on the ancient and future resources of African literature, by the author of Two Thousand Seasons, KMT and other novels, gives colonial Africanist preconceptions of Africa's literary heritage a clean burial. Citing new evidence on oral and written traditions, it shows that Africa's old oral culture, antedating the pyramids, was the matrix from which emerged the hieroglyphic literature of ancient Egypt.

The Resolutionaries
The Resolutionaries

Author: Ayi Kwei Armah

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9782911928178

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"As a professional interpreter, Nefert works at conferences where Africa's rulers meet not to solve the continent's problems, but to resolve to beg for solutions from past and present masters. ... [She] gets drawn into a circle of highly skilled friends looking, like her, for a key to an African future. Her spirit lifts as the group's research uncovers an ancient way of knowledge and creative work, long suppressed during the centuries of foreign oppression ..."--Back cover.

KMT
KMT

Author: Ayi Kwei Armah

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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Critical Perspectives on Ayi Kwei Armah
Critical Perspectives on Ayi Kwei Armah

Author: Derek Wright

Publisher: Three Continents

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780894106415

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This volume provides a selection of critical responses to the work of the anglophone West African novelist, Ayi Kwei Armah. The essays deal with such topics as narrative technique, symbolism and metaphor, mythology, literary ancestry, historical background and sociopolitical vision.