![]() ![]() And that’s what novels should be: something else entirely. Because the novel starts off as something else entirely. When the story takes off – the narrator / protagonist – ‘the man’ working as a railway clerk, refusing a bribe at work, entertaining an old friend who is now an affluent corrupt minister, confrontations with his wife who doesn’t understand him and wants him to be corrupt like everyone else, late night meetings with his friend Teacher to discuss his feelings of guilt, shame, anger, hopelessness, then the dramatic ending… it kind of loses itself. The debut novel of Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah, tells the story of an unnamed man who struggles to reconcile himself with the reality of post-independence Ghana of the 1960s. ![]()
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