Ayi Kwei Armah

An unnamed railway clerk in Ghana struggles to maintain his integrity in the face of pervasive corruption following independence, exploring disillusionment with post-colonial governments.

An epic history of the African people across two thousand years of Arab and European conquest, slavery, and colonialism. Written in a collective 'we' voice drawing on oral tradition.

Baako returns from studying in America full of idealism, but his family and a society consumed by materialism destroy him. Armah's second novel, even darker than his debut.