The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

The Beautyful Ones…

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Ayi Kwei Armah’s debut novel (published in 1968), owes its title to the misspelled inscription on a bus in Ghana where the story is set. It opens during the final months in… Read More

Leave a Comment

Posted on October 29, 2022 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Colonial Experience, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pan-Africanism, Pop Music, Reparations, slavery, Storytelling

Akenaten, Amarna Period, American exceptionalism, Amun, Angola, art-for-life's-sake, Ausar, Auset, Ayi Kwei Armah, Branford Marsalis, Chinua Achebe, Congo Square, Fathia Nkrumah, Heru, Kuntu, Kwame Nkrumah, manifest destiny, Nefertiti, Osiris, Pan-Africanism, Prince, Queen Elizabeth II, Sankofa, Set, The Beautiful Ones, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Tutankhamun, ubuntu, Wynton Marsalis

Malaika Mutere

MALAIKA MUTERE

The Beautyful Ones…

Subscribe to this Blog

Blogroll