The Healers &#; Ayi Kwei Armah
It is completely astonishing how all the elements in The Healers are so superbly woven together. How enjoyable this novel is. How creative and visionary the story is. How the (re)- telling of a familiar story can delight in its newness. Set in late 19th century Africa, it covers a period of great change and destruction in the continent’s history. And yet, its issues and conclusions resonate in 21st century Africa.
Events in the childhood and early adulthood of Densu, the main protagonist, at are the heart of the novel. The story is set during the colonial period (in Ghana) when the Asante, the Fanti and the Assen regularly fought each other. Members of the royal family of Esuano have separated into two factions. A palace coup is in the works and Densu is approached by Ababio, his guardian:
If we do not help the whites, we shall be left by the roadside. And if we are such fools as to stand against the whites, they will grind us till we become less than impotent , less than grains of bad snuff tossing in a storm. That is the choice before every one of us. I myself, I have already chosen. And those who think like me have chosen. We shal
Ayi Kwei Armah
Ayi Kwei Armah
Ayi Kwei Armah (* Oktober in Ghana ) ist ein ghanaischer Schriftsteller, der vor allem für seine Romane The Golden Age is Not Tomorrow (), Two Thousand Seasons () und The Healers () bekannt wurde. Sein Werk umfasst auch Essays, Gedichte , Kurzgeschichten und Kinderbücher. Sein Werk, das gerne dunkel und polemisch ist, prangert die moralische und politische Korruption an, die durch Neokolonialismus und Materialismus gefördert wird. Aus panafrikanischer Perspektive ruft es zu einer Wiedergeburt des Kontinents auf, die sich wieder mit den Werten der Vorfahren verbindet, die insbesondere vom alten Ägypten inspiriert wurden. Er ist auch Gründer des Verlags Per Ankh mit Sitz in Popenguine , Senegal.
Biografie
Jugend und Bildung
Ayi Kwei Armah wurde in der Hafenstadt Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana als Sohn von Eltern geboren, die Fanti sprechen und väterlicherseits einer königlichen Familie des Ga- Volkes entstammen . Von bis besuchte Armah das Prince of Wales College (heute Achimota School genannt) und erhielt ein Stipendium in den Verein
The Healers
November 22,So far I like Densu and I am keen to know who killed Appia (the Prince and heir to the throne). All evidence leads to Abbabio and before I judge him, I'd want to know why Densu, though a prince, does not want royalty but only seeks to be a healer and how Damfo would help him.
My fears turned out to be true and that Abbabio in his quest for power and control actually made sure that the people turned against Densu, but he did have people who helped him-and here the writer employs the Hero archetype who is on a quest and how those people who have a feeling he's kind, just chip in to help him gladly.
In the end it is a woman Araba Jesiwa, who is Appia's mother, who confesses that Abbabio was the one who sent a warrior Buntui to kill his son, and how unsuccessfully tried to kill him too.
It is slow, and full of moral ideals, but a good book nonetheless.
Ayi Kwei Armah, (born , Takoradi, Gold Coast [now Ghana]), Ghanaian novelist whose work deals with corruption and materialism in contemporary Africa.
Armah was educated in local mission schools and at Achimota College before going to the United States in to complete his secondary education at Groton School and his bachelor’s degree at Harvard University. He thereafter worked as a scriptwriter, translator, and English teacher in Paris, Tanzania, Lesotho, Senegal, and the United States, among other places.
In his first novel, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (), Armah showed his deep concern for greed and political corruption in a newly independent African nation. In his second novel, Fragments (), a young Ghanaian returns home after living in the United States and is disillusioned by the Western-inspired materialism and moral decay that he sees around him. The theme of return and disillusionment continued in Why Are We So Blest? (), but with a somewhat wider scope. In Two Thousand Seasons () Armah borrowed language from the African dirge and praise song to produce a chronicle of the African past, which is portrayed as having a certain romantic perfection before being destroy
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