Towards reconstructing Africa: Recuperation and responsibility in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers

A product of Africa’s pre-colonial and colonial history, Ayi Kwei Armah’s fifth novel, The Healers (1978), is steeped in an African communalistic worldview and the functional conception of art. In this article we examine the multiple dimensions to recuperation within the context of the reconstructio...

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Main Authors: Augustine Asaah, Tao Zou
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association 2022-09-01
Series:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
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Online Access:https://letterkunde.africa/article/view/13220