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What is Ayi Kwei Armah known for?

Ayi Kwei Armah is a Ghanaian writer (born 1939) whose novels are concerned with corruption, materialism, and the widening moral and spiritual chasm that exists between appearance and reality, spirit and substance, and past and present in Ghana and in contemporary Africa. Armah has also published nonfiction, and he founded the publishing collective Per Ankh in Senegal.