Armah, Ayi Kwei

Japanese: アーマ（英語表記）Armah, Ayi Kwei

Born in 1939. A novelist from Takoradi, British Gold Coast, Ghana. Written in English. After studying at the prestigious Achimota School, he worked as a scriptwriter, reporter, and announcer for the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation. At the age of 18, he moved to the United States and completed graduate studies at Harvard and Columbia universities. He has lived in various parts of Africa and has taught at many universities, including the University of Dar es Salaam, as well as at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Wisconsin in the United States. His most famous work is The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), which exposes the corruption of the black elite in Ghanaian society under the Nkrumah government after independence. His other works include Fragments (1970), which uses autobiographical elements to depict the chaos of post-independence society, Why Are We So Blest? (1972), Two Thousand Seasons (1973), which attempts to reconstruct Africa's past, and The Healers (1978), a historical novel that depicts the secret activities of reformers against the backdrop of the Second Ashanti War (→Ashanti) that took place in the late 19th century from 1873 to 1874, and questions the tragic history of the collapsed Ashanti Kingdom from the inside. (→African Literature)

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Japanese:

[生]1939. イギリス領ゴールドコースト，タコラディ
ガーナの小説家。英語で執筆。名門アチモタ・スクールで学んだのち，ガーナ放送局の脚本家，リポーター，アナウンサーなどを経験。18歳でアメリカ合衆国に渡り，ハーバード大学とコロンビア大学の大学院を修了。アフリカ各地での生活経験が豊富で，ダルエスサラーム大学など多数の大学で教えたほか，アメリカのマサチューセッツ大学やウィスコンシン大学でも教えた。代表作は，独立後のエンクルマ政権下のガーナ社会を背景に黒人エリートの腐敗を暴いた『美しき者，未だ生まれず』The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born（1968）。ほかに自伝的要素をこめて独立後社会の混迷を描く『断片』Fragments（1970），『なぜ我らは，かくも祝福されるのか』Why Are We So Blest?（1972），アフリカの過去の再構築を試みた『二千の季節』Two Thousand Seasons（1973），19世紀後半の 1873～74年に起こった第2次アシャンティ戦争（→アシャンティ）を背景に世直し人たちの暗躍を描き，滅亡したアシャンティ王国の悲史を内側から問う歴史小説『ヒーラーたち』The Healers（1978）などがある。（→アフリカ文学）

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