Ayi kwei armah the beautyful ones

2 Before this 1966 return, Armah had worked in Algiers as a translator for the weekly Revolution Africaine. 1 Having thus become a 'been-to', Armah was able to delineate in his second novel, Fragments, the climate of expectation created by the return of an expatriate West African, and the disappointment which follows if he fails to satisfy the desires of his hopeful relatives and friends. In sociology, graduating from Harvard with Honours. Born in Takoradi, Ghana in 1939, he left twenty years later for Massachusetts, where he studied for a B.A. It has become a recurrent pattern among leading African writers and intellectuals to complete their education in the U.S.A., and Ayi Kwei Armah is no exception to this trend.

Lecture on: Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) for H235 African Literature, Murdoch University, 1976-7 Garry Gillard

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