Ebook {Epub PDF} Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah

Armah's novel is a pan-African epic. In many ways it is a summing up of the African experience for the past two thousand seasons. Armah reduces it effectively to "a thousand seasons wasted wandering amazed along alien roads, another thousand spent finding paths to the living way." Two Thousand Seasons is a novel of seeking, of loss and redemption. He warns: "Woe the race, too generous in the Author: Ayi Kwei Armah. Reading Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons as an Intertext Abstract: Ayi Kwei Armah () is a Ghanaian novelist who has written so far seven novels, famous among which are his first The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (). Two Thousand Seasons () comes fourth in order of appearance, but it is the first where Armah plunges into Africa’s millennial past. The Healers (), . BJES Fouad MAMI University of Adrar Adrar /Algeria Reading Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons as an Intertext Abstract: Ayi Kwei Armah () is a Ghanaian novelist who has written so far seven novels, famous among which are his irst The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (). Two Thousand Seasons () comes fourth in order of appearance, but it is the irst where Armah Estimated Reading Time: 11 mins.

The two thousand seasons of the title of Ayi Kwei Armah's novel represent the enormous arc of time of African history covered in it. "We are not a people of yesterday", begins the first chapter, but the book does cover the long and awful yesteryears that were traversed and endured. The book hopes to put it behind: "Soon we shall end this. User Review - Flag as inappropriate For me, Ayi Kwei Armah's Two Thousand Seasons is a book that every African proud of his Identity should read and read again. For one thing, it points Africans to values we should think of reviving, values of reciprocity, values of communal spirit, values of self www.doorway.ru, the novel directs us as Africans, to the virtues of Pan-Africanism, for it. In Ayi Kwei Armah. In Two Thousand Seasons () Armah borrowed language from the African dirge and praise song to produce a chronicle of the African past, which is portrayed as having a certain romantic perfection before being destroyed by Arab and European despoilers. The Healers (), Armah's fifth novel,.

Armah's novel is a pan-African epic. In many ways it is a summing up of the African experience for the past two thousand seasons. Armah reduces it effectively to "a thousand seasons wasted wandering amazed along alien roads, another thousand spent finding paths to the living way." Two Thousand Seasons is a novel of seeking, of loss and redemption. He warns: "Woe the race, too generous in the giving of itself, that finds a highway not of regeneration but a highway to its own extinction.". Two Thousand Seasons is a very touching book which should be used in schools here to help the children who descended from Africans of all backgrounds to learn about the way of life and culture and traditions of Africa before the influence of foreign values and colonialism. Two thousand seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah, , East African Publishing House edition, in English. Two thousand seasons ( edition) | Open Library. Donate ♥. Log in.