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Twinsax Holds 3rd Gospel Jazz Evening Africa In Nigeria

Edit Modern Ghana 03 May 2016
By Oral Ofori ... “though they say ‘the beautyful ones are not yet born’ [an allusion to the book by Ayi Kwei Armah], the shining of this generation’s light proves the whole idea wrong as what was manifest here tonight by these performers and indeed everyone is nothing short of an amazing blessing which marks the setting of a new horizon for African gospel music” ... Eneje of Generals International ... ....

Shakespeare, tourism and our literary heroes

Edit Graphic 30 Apr 2016
His hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon, is an international literary tourism destination visited by up to 5 million tourists each year. The wider area known as Shakespeare's England received 9.94 million tourists in 2014 ... This is definitely not much ado about nothing ... When the official learnt I was Ghanaian, he practically broke protocol, ignored the others waiting to be greeted and kept asking me all sorts of questions about Ayi Kwei Armah....

Nothing has changed

Edit Graphic 15 May 2015
That is what is happening to Mr Kwabena Agyepong and Mr Paul Afoko. Within the NPP, the only way to incite antipathy against any party supporter is to brand him a National Democratic Congress ( NDC) mole. When that label is hung around your neck, even the most sensible supporter ceases to think ... Here is my analysis ... To prove to myself that nothing has changed, I went for my copy of Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born ... ....

LETTER: Adebajo falsifies call

Edit Business Day 12 May 2015
Related articles. ON THE WATER ... I also wrote that "of the 174 South African full professors, 148 are white" ... And how does Dr Adebajo’s allegation of my "hostility" to African intellectuals stack up against the work and relationships I have built with Julius Nyerere, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Ayi Kwei Armah, Dani Nabudere, Mahmood Mamdani, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Achille Mbembe?. Xolela Mangcu ... Read this next. ....

Sierra Leone News: No Prosperity with Corruption

Edit Awoko 05 May 2015
When it comes to dealing with corruption, there are very divergent views that people have. There are a lot of our compatriots who think corruption is a way of life and should be left alone. No doubt controversy is part of our psyche as a nation ... Each time the issue of corruption comes up, I think of Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, It looks like the Author actually also had Sierra Leone in mind....

Nigeria At The Edge Of Precipice- Wole Soyinka

Edit Peace FM Online 12 May 2014
Nigeria’s distinguished author and Nobel laureate, Prof ... He also paid tribute to some of his colleagues including Ayi Kwei Armah (for the Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born ) and Chinua Achebe’s (No Longer at Ease ) who were thought of as over- pessimists in the 1960s and 70s when they raised issues of leadership failure and its associated social discontent ... The last recipient was the South African author, Sifiso Mzobe for Young Blood....

African writing blurs into 'world' literature

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 04 Apr 2014
It is timely to reflect on the past, present and possible future of African literature ... Those who experienced literary success in this period, figures such as Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ousmanne Sembene, Ferdinand Oyono, Mongo Beti, Wole Soyinka, Flora Nwapa, Grace Ogot, Bessie Head and Okot p'Bitek came to constitute the canon of African literature ... Testifying ... Redressing marginalisation ... ....
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