The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born

‘What is impressive about The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the way in which it expresses the disillusion and cynicism engendered in Ghana in the last years of Nkrumah, which his fall only seemed to compound. . . Its description of the vague existential ennui of his unnamed hero recalls Sartre’s La Nausee.’
– West Africa –

‘ . . . his central story of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn even from those he loves, is most vividly conveyed’.
– The Time Literary Supplement –

‘Probably the best writer ever to come out of Ghana. . . a notable achievement.’
 – Sunday Telegraph –

‘This is not a book to be forgotten.’
– The Listener –