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Anything by Armah is magical and spirit redefining. Armah’s novel is a pan-African epic. Portraying the warrior spirit of collective responsibility and survival,for Afrikan nations history interupted by invaders. Good style and well-written.
Two Thousand Seasons is a story of triumphs of the spirit and the will, despite unspeakable horrors, oppression, and betrayals. So I no longer have my copy – and would have had it not gone missing! In many ways it is a summing up of the African experience for the past two thousand seasons. He also challenges the notion that African somehow welcomed enslavement by chronicling the movement for resistance.
A critique of patriarchy, capitalism, and racism seasins all be found here. Every other text I’ve read about the African slave trade has been from the perspective of the Europeans documenting what the Africans were going through.
There are revolts — of great ferocity. Admittedly, the first few pages aren’t easy to penetrate but when done, the novel provides the reader with a lot to think about. The book ends, yet the struggle being fought continues, as it will until all African peoples have freedom, power and self determination. Among the destroyers are missionaries, too, with a different poisonous religion. The whole novel is written very poetically and heartbreakingly vivid. Jan 28, Val marked it as to-read Shelves: Jul 08, Sananaa rated it it was amazing.
But there was more complexity at work there, and most of it Armah glosses over.
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Do they ask how many single seasons we have flowed from our beginnings till now? The story truly begins with the coming of the predators who bring ruin.
The novel focuses on the complicitness of African people to the enslavement of their people to intruders, first represented as Arabs than as European whites. It is a stirring, angry, often horrifying, often touching read.
Two Thousand Seasons – UK. Leadership is a problem: One will find the Ostentatious Cripples, the Askaris and more This, however, is so truthful it hurts. It is the first Ayi Kwei book that I read and it created a bond between the writer and me. They had come determined to see nothing, to listen to no one, bent solely on the satisfaction of their greed, of which we had ample news. It seems too simple, too ridiculous — and yet it too will subvert the ancient society from within.
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We with our way were all condemned, our very color turned into the predators’ name for evil. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Armah reduces it effectively to “a thousand seasons wasted wandering amazed along alien roads, another thousand spent finding paths to the living way.
Two Thousand Seasons – Ayi Kwei Armah
By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. The place of origin, the home, is an unspecified African country, standing for all of sub-Saharan Africa. However, as society is transformed and certain people are given power over others, the role of women is transformed and women are confined to roles of child bearers and homemakers.
The above is the first paragraph that begins the novel.
Two Thousand Seasons
Describes how an African tribe fought back against genocidal white invaders. Now this one made me look at the Kweu fascination with suicide differently. The author paints a very candid image of 0200 the Africans were going through each and every moment of their existence, and he doesn’t hold back any details. Arab and European oppressors are portrayed as “predators,” “destroyers,” and “zombies”. We are not so warped in soul, we are not Arabs, we are not Muslims to fabricate a desert God chanting sseasons in the wilderness, and call out creature creator.
On the trans-Atlantic voyage, the group organizes a successful shipboard revolt, then returns to the continent to begin the work of their lives — organizing to end the rule of injustice established by European invaders and their African collaborators. It is an epic historical novel, attempting to depict the last “two thousand seasons” of African history in one narrative arc following a Pan-African approach.
It is a folk tale armqh the and for the diaspora. Traditionally, gender equality was experienced in the larger context of general social equality.