A review by _eph_
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah

Did not finish book.

This book was too frustrating by half. I hated his writing. I understand that he wrote like that to convey how depressing and alienating post-independence Ghana was like but I still didn't appreciate it. He uses the passive voice like a weapon, describes the most mundane of objects tediously. There is little to his internal thoughts, and I cannot say I knew him at all by the halfway mark. The only sighs of relief I got as when I came across dialogue but even that was scattered so few and far in between that I had to put it down. I don't even remember anything of the "plot" because this was 3 years ago but my god... my frustration is still nevertheless there.