Ghanaian novelist, essayist, and short-story writer Ayi Kwei Armah has won international recognition as one of Africa’s most articulate writers. In this book, Ode Ogede argues that previous critics have misinterpreted the aesthetic and literary influences that have shaped Armah’s artistic vision and overlooked his most significant and valuable contribution to the problems of writing “outside the prison-house of conventional English.” Professor Ogede situates Armah’s writing within its cultural, historical, and political contexts and examines Armah’s ability to create new literary forms based on his masterful manipulation of African oral traditions. Armah is presented here as a writer who looks beyond the corruption that would seem to have engulfed Africa and who successfully bridges the concerns of first- and second-generation postcolonial African writers.

Ayi Kwei Armah, Radical Iconoclast: Pitting Imaginary Worlds Against the Actual (Studies in African Literature)

Ogede, Ode

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A complete Phonics and Word Study Curriculum for each of the primary grades with 100 Minilessons for Kindergarten.

Phonics Lessons: Letters, Words, and How They Work (Grade 1)

Gay Su Pinnell

Reference

In her attempt to find out more about literacy activities within the family context, Denny Taylor spent three years doing field work with six families. At the time of the study, each of the families contained a child who was considered by his or her parents to be successfully learning to read and write. This study attempts to develop systematic ways of looking at reading and writing as activities which have consequences in, and are affected by, family life.

Family Literacy

Education & Teaching

Denny Taylor

Schools & Teaching

A sequence of Botswana village tales about subjects such as the breakdown of family life and the position of women in this society told with all the skill that one has come to expect of Bessie Head.

The Collector of Treasures And Other Botswana Village Tales (African Writers)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Head, Bessie

Antiques & Collectibles

Navigation of a Rainmaker: An Apocalyptic Vision of War-Torn Africa (African Writers Series)

The story of Okonkwo, an important man in the Obi tribe, in the days when white men were first appearing on the scene. This novel tells of the series of events by which Okonkwo, through his pride and his fears, becomes exiled from the tribe.

Things Fall Apart (African Writers Series)

Literature & Fiction

Achebe, Chinua

Contemporary

Tells the story of Shellie, a Trinidadian boy who moves to a new village and meets two girls. By the author of "The Year in San Fernando".

Green Days by the River (Caribbean Writers Series, No 9)

Michael, Anthony

Tee is being made socially acceptable by her Aunt Beatrice, so that she can cope with the caste system of Trinidad.

Crick Crack, Monkey (Caribbean Writers Series ; 24)

Merle Hodge

Short Stories & Anthologies

Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War (Social History of Africa)

Ngwabi Bhebe

Terence Ranger

Myths and Legends of Indonesia

Jan Knappert

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