The Healers An historical novel Armah, Ayi Kwei

Heinemann
Year of publishing: 1979
Place of publishing: Johanesbourg
ISBN: 043590194X
Language: English
Series: first

Je to právě století, co jedno z velikých afrických císařstvích Ashanti, padlo. Příčinou nebyly evropské mocnosti a jejich destruktivní síla, ale africká nejednotnost. Někteří pochopili, že se jedná o zhoubnou nemoc, jejíž jediný způsob léčby je jednota. Byli to „The Healers“. Tato kniha je jejich příběhem - román, jehož ústřední myšlenkou je sjednocení Afriky. Je to příběh minulosti, který vyrovnaně mluví o přítomnosti a zároveň jasně hledí do budoucnosti.

A century ago one of Africa's great empires, Ashanti, fell. The root cause of that fall, szmbolic of Africa's conquest, was not merely Europe's destructive strength. It was Africa's disunity. Even then some saw this disunity as our people's deadliest disease, and they thought the only possible cure: unity. These were the Healers. This is their story, a novel centred on the curative, creative vision of African unity. A story of the past, it speaks calmly to the present, and looks clearly to the future.

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