![]() The imagery employed by Armah is so vivid that readers might feel as if they are physically there as the story unfolds, either in the being of the main character, or as observers experiencing the sleazy situation. Almost every environment has been described as dirty and filthy throughout the novel with the mockery of signposts and rubbish cans that preach cleanliness “keep your city clean…” The only place in the story which might not be offensive is the neighbourhood the man’s old acquaintance from school (currently a government minister), Joseph Koomson lives “’…in the Upper Residential Area… on the hills beyond the new Esikafo Aba Estates.’” ![]() This blindness, Ayi Kwei Armah reveals, led to a corrupt government that prosecuted morally upright civil servants. ![]() The author exposes the naivety of the people who cheer for the politicians regardless of the damage the government is doing. The events of the novel are set in the historic period of the Passion Week in 1965 and the 25 th of February, 1966, the day after Dr Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown.įocusing on the life of the unnamed protagonist who never compromises his moral values, readers will get to appreciate this man of integrity as their eyes and ears in the novel. ![]() ![]() It ponders on the corruption and oppression that did not end with the white man but was replaced with the same or maybe worse capitalist regime when the people took over from the colonial masters in 1957. The novel is divided into fifteen chapters contained in 183 pages. ![]()
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