A Beautiful turned ugly
The Beautyful Ones are not Yet Born captures in graphic terms the postcolonial situation of Ghana and other postcolonial African states where corruption and the failed dreams of real freedom and independence were betrayed the African leaders and elite themselves. This situation approximates LeRois Jones evaluation of the African revolutions as a betrayal of the cultural revolution and progress. The ills that attended independence are captured in prostitution and corruption that ate into the fiber of the society causing things to fall apart. The nauseating indecencies are Armah's disgust at the rotten state of a people given up to tyranny, abuse of power and rampant corruption where the bankruptcy of moral responsibility and uprightness gave way to greed and corruption. Cry, the beloved country/continent, people.
