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Article: Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris Rising: new wine in an old wine skin.(Critical Essay)
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- April 1, 2002
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Ayi Kwei Armah's career as a novelist reveals two healthy and complementary directions of growth. The first, reflected by his first three novels, essentially takes a hard look at the concept of African independence and criticizes the political class as well as the highly apolitical citizenry for the spate of corruption, which ruined the first republic in Ghana, and ushered in the inauguration of the military in the nation's nascent political arrangement. There is also in the second and third novels a progressive frustration of the intellectual class, which fights to bring about changes. Baako's estrangement from his family in Fragments is a sad reminder of the ...