The Healers

Name: The Healers
Author: Ayi Kwei Armah

by Ayi Kwei Armah

Novel about healers preserving African tradition and wisdom against oppression

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Ayi Kwei Armah

Ghanaian novelist whose The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is a searing critique of post-independence Ghanaian corruption. His later Afrocentric novels drew more explicitly on ancient African civilizational values.

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