West Africa
Ghana
Post-colonial
English
Fiction
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.
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Armah's most ambitious work; a founding text of pan-African historical fiction
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editorial-summarynot primary textAn 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. Armah's most ambitious work; a founding text of pan-African historical fiction
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