Ayi Kwei Armah's Essays: Still the Vain Nationalist Combat

Prof. Atta BRITWUM

Numéro Spécial 11 – Décembre 2016 : Actes du Colloque International « Ayi Kwei Armah et le destin de l'Afrique » (2016) Page(s) 1 - 18 ISSN 2076-6130

The essays aggregate as an argument against colonial domination, still. It combats, in the typical nationalist spirit, anti-black racial prejudice and other abuses of the colonial system. These abuses are, though, of the superstructure of capitalism which defines colonialism. The nationalist onslaught leaves the capitalist material base in which colonialism roots itself un -stoned; indeed strengthened, rendering the combat much ado about little. Armah relays in these essays anti -European sentiments, which, present in his third novel, Why Are We So Blest?, get striking in the later novels. The essays drum up further this overt racism while advertising supercilious impatience with African scholars and politicians who do not share the self-evident truths that the essays serve. CONNECTIONS FROM THE EARLY NATIONALIST PERSPECTIVE ancestral communalist social political structure. That quality conflicts with the Euro -Christian and Islamic components of the heritage. The framework, named consciencism, is distilled out of the harmonisation of the three components of the heritage which stands the ancestral egalitarianism of Africa as driving force. This should result in the creation of a socialist society which is distinguished by same fundamental egalitarianism of communalist Africa. Fanon’s Manichean project in Les Damn és de la terre (1961) restores the antagonism of the colonial situation which, n’en déplaise a Fanon, feeds negritude. This antagonism, for Fanon, is irremediable, or rather can only resolve itself in the elimination of one of the opposing terms. And, from his perspective, itis the colonial,

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Prof. Atta BRITWUM. « Ayi Kwei Armah's Essays: Still the Vain Nationalist Combat ». Revue Ivoirienne de Langues Étrangères, Numéro 11, 2016, p. 1. ISSN 2076-6130.