Ayi kwei armah biography sample
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Ayi Kwei Armah is one of the most acclaimed, yet controversial, West African writers. Born in Takoradi, Ghana to Fante-speaking parents in 1939, with his father’s side Armah descending from a royal family in the Ga tribe, his work deals with corruption and materialism in contemporary Africa.
After attending a colonial boarding school in the future capital of Accra, Armah studied in the US and achieved a degree in Sociology from Harvard University in 1963. He later travelled between Ghana, Algeria, and France, often working as an editor or translator for various Francophone publications, including Jeune Afrique. It was during this time that he read the anti-colonial works of Frantz Fanon who became a significant source of inspiration to Armah’s future writing.
Following his successful completion of a degree in Creative Writing at Columbia University in 1970, Armah began teaching across Tanzania, Lesotho, and the US. In the village of Popenguine, about 70 km from Dakar, he est
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Ayi Kwei Armah
Ghanaian writer (born 1939)
Ayi Kwei Armah (born 28 October 1939) is a Ghanaian writer best known for his novels including The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Two Thousand Seasons (1973) and The Healers (1978). He is also an essayist, as well as having written poetry, short stories, and books for children.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Ayi Kwei Armah was born in the port city of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana to Fante-speaking parents, descending on his father's side from a royal family in the Ga nation.[2] From 1953 to 1958, Armah attended Prince of Wales College (now known as Achimota School), and won a scholarship to study in the United States, where he was between 1959 and 1963.[3] He attended Groton School in Groton, MA, and then Harvard University, where he received a degree in sociology. He then moved to Algeria and worked as a translator for the magazine Révolution Africaine. In 1964, he returned to Ghana,
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In Sweden, Ottilie Abrahams finished her master’s degree and was writing a PhD thesis on the works of Ayi Kwei Armah, a writer from Ghana. Ayi Kwei Armah, was born in 1939 in Takoradi, Gold Coast, now Ghana. His novels deal with corruption and materialism in ‘post colonial’ Africa. He was educated in local mission schools in Ghana before going to the United States in 1959 to complete high school and then did a bachelors degree at Harvard University and a Master’s in Fine Arts at Columbia University. He worked as a scriptwriter, translator, and English teacher in France, Tanzania, Lesotho, Senegal, and the USA. Ottilie Abraham’s thesis focused on his first novel, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968). She was looking at the kinds of coups taking place across Africa immediately after independence and asking “if we all fought for independence why is it that people are regressing?” Studying A