Fragments

novel by Armah

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Fragments (1970) is a novel by Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah. The story follows a young Ghanaian who returns home after living in the United States. He becomes disillusioned by the Western-inspired materialism and moral decay he observes in his homeland. Armah's novels often explore themes of corruption, materialism, and the disconnect between appearance and reality in contemporary Africa.12

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African literature
English
In Fragments (1970) Armah tells of a youth, Baako, who returns from the United States to his Ghanaian family and is torn between the new demands of his home and the consequent subversion of a traditional past represented by the mythic Naana, his blind grandmother, who…
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In Fragments (1970) Armah tells of a youth, Baako, who returns from the United States to his Ghanaian family and is torn between the new demands of his home and the consequent subversion of a traditional past represented by the mythic Naana, his blind grandmother, who…
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Ayi Kwei Armah
Novels
In his second novel, Fragments (1970), a young Ghanaian returns home after living in the United States and is disillusioned by the Western-inspired materialism and moral decay that he sees around him. The theme of return and disillusionment continued in Why Are We So Blest? (1971), but with a…
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In his second novel, Fragments (1970), a young Ghanaian returns home after living in the United States and is disillusioned by the Western-inspired materialism and moral decay that he sees around him. The theme of return and disillusionment continued in Why Are We So Blest? (1971), but with a…
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