These two witty and perceptive social dramas are sympathetic and honest explorations of the conflicts between the individualism of westernised culture and the social traditions of Africa. Both plays have been performed throughout the world.
Trans Atlantic and African slave trades are the subject of Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons (1973) in which a pluralized communal voice speaks through the history of Africa, its wet and dry seasons, from a period of one thousand years....
A railway freight clerk in Ghana attempts to hold out against the pressures that impel him toward corruption in both his family and his country. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the novel that catapulted Ayi Kwei...
Gordon Tilson is a lonely widower who befriends a young woman online. When her sister is injured in a car accident, he sends her thousands of dollars to cover the hospital bill and runs off to Ghana to surprise...
Getting over heartbreak and unsatisfied with life in London, he escapes on a jaunt across the world. Encountering indecent proposals volunteering in rural Africa, the downsides of drug consumption backpacking in Southeast Asia and the challenges of love-making in...
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