Ayi Kwei Armah

The Gandhi Statue Removal Petition Had Nothing To Do With J.B. Danquah 1

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“For there are Danquah-hating characters on the campus of the University of Ghana who, based on the blighted logic of anti-Gandhi faculty members like Professors Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Obadele Kambon, ought not to be teaching at Legon.” OUR TAKE A casual reading of the afore-cited quotation might seem as though it was “dictator” Kwame … Read more

Complete Biography & Profile of Ayi Kwei Armah, Author

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Ayi Kwei Armah was born in 1939 to Fante-speaking parents in the port city of Takoradi, Ghana. He left Ghana in 1959 to attend the Groton School in Groton, MA. Afterwards, he attended Harvard. Much of his work deals with the problems of post-colonial Ghana. Armah’s first and best-known novel, The Beautyful Ones Are not … Read more