The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born

The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
Author: Ayi Kwei Armah
Publisher: Heinemann
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1988
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780435905408

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
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1979
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

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

Fragments

Fragments
Author: Ayi Kwei Armah
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2006
Genre: Ghana
ISBN: 9782911928109

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:
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2006
Genre: Africa
ISBN:

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:
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2013
Genre: Africa
ISBN: 9782911928178

"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:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2002
Genre: Africa
ISBN:

Critical Perspectives on Ayi Kwei Armah

Critical Perspectives on Ayi Kwei Armah
Author: Derek Wright
Publisher: Three Continents
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1992
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780894106415

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.