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Article: The Writer and His Critics: A Critical Review of Studies on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fiction.(Critical essay)
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- Kola
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- June 22, 2009
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Introduction
Many critics have described Ayi Kwei Armah as one of the greatest prose writers to come from Africa. In a screening of African writers as candidates for the Nobel Award, Idang Alibi, a newspasper columnist, says that 'Armah has shown in all his novels that he is a great prose stylist, a brutally frank socially committed African writer, a philosopher and artist par excellence.' (1) Part of the comments on the back of the cover of Why Are We So Blest? Also reads: 'Ayi Kwei Armah is the major prose stylist of the second generation of Anglophone African writers and the most significant Ghanaisan novelist to date.'
However, there are a number of ...