![]() ![]() ![]() This blindness, Ayi Kwei Armah reveals, led to a corrupt government that prosecuted morally upright civil servants. The author exposes the naivety of the people who cheer for the politicians regardless of the damage the government is doing. The events of the novel are set in the historic period of the Passion Week in 1965 and the 25 th of February, 1966, the day after Dr Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown.įocusing on the life of the unnamed protagonist who never compromises his moral values, readers will get to appreciate this man of integrity as their eyes and ears in the novel. It ponders on the corruption and oppression that did not end with the white man but was replaced with the same or maybe worse capitalist regime when the people took over from the colonial masters in 1957. The novel is divided into fifteen chapters contained in 183 pages. ![]()
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