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Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes

born 1939 Ghana

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.

Ghana
Essayists
Novelists
Poets
Short story writers

Also known as: The beautyful ones are not yet born, Two Thousand Seasons

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I know people who won more than Five hundred cedis last year they still haven't got their money. I hope some officials at the lottery place will take some of my hundred cedis as a bribe and allow me to have the rest.

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)

Yet she suspected that in its ten thousand disguises Cinque's Zombi corpse still ruled Africa; that those working to remember the dismembered continent were still fugitives in need of sanctuary from the storm troopers of destruction.

Osiris Rising (1995)

Purpose lends wings to the traveller.

Two Thousand Seasons (1973)

Send me words of eloquence.

The Healers (1979)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ayi Kwei Armah (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.