The beautyful ones are not yet born

The beautyful ones are not yet born (1968) by Aryi Kwei Armah The novel tells the story of an unnamed man who struggles to reconcile himself with the reality of post-independence Ghana.

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 * I know people who won more than Five hundred cedis last year they still haven't got their money. I hope some officials at the lottery place will take some of my hundred cedis as a bribe and allow me to have the rest.
 * Page 19


 * Take that one for yourself and give the other one to your friend.
 * Page 30
 * Have you ever seen a big man without girls
 * Page 37
 * Mmmm life has treated her well
 * Page 42
 * These men who were to lead us out of our despair,they came like man already grown fat and cynical with the eating of centuries of power they had never struggled for old before they had even been borninto power,and ready only for the grave.
 * Page 81


 * Alone I can nothing,I have nothing.we have power but we will never see it work,unless we choose to come together to make it work let us come together
 * Page 87
 * Vagina sweet ,money sweet pass all,who born fool socialism chop make chop country broke you broken not so? Pray for detention jail man chop free
 * Page 106