Landmark is level 2 of 5 in the Ghana Hall of Fame: a first, or the pre-eminent figure of their generation in this country. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
His first novel turned post-independence disillusion into literature, and remains the book most often reached for when Africans write about corruption and its cost.
Born in October 1939, Armah published The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born in 1968 — a novel of a railway clerk refusing bribes in a society where everyone takes them.
It arrived barely a decade after independence and said what little else was saying at the time.
It arrived barely a decade after independence and said what little else was saying at the time.
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