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Changes: A Love Story

Changes: A Love Story

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Changes explores the complex world in which the lives of professional working women have changed sharply, but the cultural assumptions of mens lives have not. Witty and compelling, Aidoos novel, according to Manthia Diawara, "inaugurates a new realist style in African literature."

"Aidoo writes with intense power in a novel that, in examining the role of women in modern African society, also sheds light on womens problems around the globe."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Ama Ata Aidoo, one of Ghanas most distinguished writers, is the author of two other works of fiction, Our Sister Killjoy and No Sweetness Here (The Feminist Press), as well as plays, poems, and childrens books. Tuzyline Jita Allan is associate professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY.
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Customer ReviewsGhanian women and Modernity: Independence?
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Modern Ghanaian women suffer daily sacrifices, lifelong barriers to their advancement, and an emerging modernity which has multiplied their duties but not simplified their lives. Changes focuses on a three year period in the lives of Esi Sekyi, Opokuya Dakwa, and Fusena Kondey, three women approaching their mid thirties in Accra, Ghana.
In Changes we can see the evidence of a complex struggle in the name of modernity between African women and society, families, traditions, and their own desires. From the perspectives of Esi, Opokuya, and Fusena, Aidoo shows us how such modern African women view their lives, and with what methods they are willing to fight to improve their lives.
Esi, Opokuya, and to a lesser degree the much-suppressed Fusena, fight against more than just an accumulation of oppressive tradition that favors men. They struggle for appreciation of their talents and for an equal part in guiding their marriages. Esi and Opokuya struggle to build marriages and relationships that allow them to reap their benefits of their individuality and their educations, and exercise their own free wills, without making them overworked, or being labeled mad women and witches. The reaction of their families, husbands and communities to these women reveal modern dilemmas for educated African women.

Aidoos love story traces Esis distinctly rebellious and independent path to love and marriage, as contrasted to the more traditional married lives of Opokuya and Fusena. in doing so, the novel illustrates women challenging a postcolonial African society on all fronts. This front is as diverse as the workplace, in hotel bars, in the kitchen, on the road driving alone in their new cars, in the rural traditional village, and in the bedroom. Despite often finding that lonely independence is untenable, Esi and Opokuya achieve moderate success in their fight. Their resiliency indicates shifting gender roles in Africa, and some compatibility between tradition and these new roles.

I give this book 5 stars because ot is an extremely rich story told frankly and believably. The material even seems politically important (perhaps all novels should try to be so?) in that it addresses real problems facing Africa and does not always provide answers, although it certainly proveds a rich cast of characters attempting to do so.

wow!
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"...that is why we do the serious business of living with our heads, and never our hearts"

Ama Ata Aidoos second novel is the story of a woman discovering herself - trying unsuccessfully to balance her need for independence with her need for attention and love within the constraints of Ghanaian culture.

What she finds is that Ghanaian culture is wise "Esi, why do you think they took so much trouble with a girl on her wedding day?... She was made much of, because the whole ceremony was a funeral of the self that could have been."

Changes - the love story Ama Ata Aidoo professed she would never write - conveys the clutter of the zongo, the frustrations of working life in Accra, and the disillusionment of love. Peppered with the uncanny wisecracks of African culture: on love "when we have to count pennies for food for our stomachs... love is nothing", on hypocrisy "How can anyone go about, eating the heads of cows, and still maintain that he is afraid of eyes?" Changes is a delightful trance. One of those pleasures that is indefinable but defining.

It is written without fuss in the language that Ghanaians call English - adapted to suit the whims and imaginings of the local mind. Ama Ata Aidoo flows with ease, occasionally returning (for effect) to the drama format with which she is unquestionably comfortable.

Read this or weep!

One of the best books Ive ever read!
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I read this book in two days! This was a love story but much more. It was a well-written, fascinating book with an ending that I couldnt have predicted. I read somewhere that Ata Ama Aidoo was hesitant to write a love story, well Im glad she did. Ive recommended it to all of my friends!

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Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born

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The central story in this book tells of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn.
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I have just completed this book and can only say that i would not have read it had i not been required to. It is the story of a poor man in a material world who, despite the pressures around and within him, is able to maintain a sense of dignity within himself. The author manages to create vivd scenes of filth and vileness throughout the novel but the plot leaves something to be desired. Characters are vague and action begins very late in the text. Despite valiant attempts to create a classic, this book still belongs in the attic with all the other dusty volumes. The only people i would recommend this to would be those who love descriptions and those who act too perky.

The stuff that nobel literature prizes are made of.
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Not any one of Soyinkas or Achebes books can hold a candle to this particular work by Ayi Kwei Armah. I studied this book for a critical appreciation of Literature course at University in the 80s and until this moment the grating images of corruption and a derelict society that breeds corruption upon itself still erupts vividly in my head. Ayi Kwei Armah succinctly and subtly depicts corruption through his writing with bold imagery and flawless writing.
You would pick this book up to read three decades after it was written, and it would still seem like a novel that just came out it still rings true to this day in many corrupt societies and it is a book that should be up there with the greatest literary giants of our time.

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Unforgettable....
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Beautiful Ones was required reading at secondary school. I didnt quite understand it, all the same it left an impression, and early this year i sought it out. It is an amazing book. Two weeks of careful reading, my copy is left heavily lined and dog-eared.

I strongly recommend it to all budding social revolutionaries.

It is one lone mans struggle against seemingly inescapable corruption and filth. A "settled mind"/resolved principles triumphs in the face of hunger, severe poverty, a nagging wife and his own conscience.

His stance is eventually justified when the corrupt government along with his much envied politician friend falls.

There is a lot of filth- environment, human nature, even language. Nothing is spared. Its easy to get caught up in its general ugliness. This is ironically the beauty of the book and does not rob it of its essence. For those who have not been exposed to widespread corruption, rotteness or had to struggle with "doing the right thing" and against all the odds, it may seem a "sick book".

Dont read this while eating lunch
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This is an utterly disgusting book, with major gratuitous bodily fluid scenes in almost every chapter. As I get grossed out easily, it was tough getting through this.

But Armahs extraordinary ability to paint imagery is undeniable, and though you may get images stuck in your head that you didnt exactly want there, this book effectively portrays a culture of corruption and despair in the last months of Kwame Nkrumahs presidency before the coup.

The draw to the story is following the protagonists noble battle, facing the unenviable dilemma of choosing between the love of those closest to him and preservation of his integrity in a society where corruption and accepting bribes is the norm.

Style Not Exactly Beautiful, but Ultimately a Strong Description of the Powerless
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Published in 1968, this was Armahs first novel. It depicted corruption and societal breakdown in a newly independent African nation, seen through the eyes of a citizen disillusioned by the materialism and decay he encountered, who found himself struggling to maintain his integrity.

The book was based on the experience of Ghanaians in the late 1950s and 1960s under the administration of Kwame Nkrumah. The nations first leader after independence, he mismanaged the economy and was overthrown two years before the novels publication. The works considered to be among the key novels that began to reflect criticism of newly established native African governments following the exhilaration of freedom from colonial rule.

Regrettably, I found the first two-thirds of the book to be plodding and often obscure, and the action uninteresting. It took 60 pages, one-third of the novel, to get the main character from a bus to an office to his home, through conversations with a bus driver, a relative, his wife and a teacher. Initially, there was little description of the characters thoughts other than through dialogue. New characters were introduced abruptly, with little clue as to who they were for example, the woman named Manaan in Chapter 6. Sixty pages into the book, a nameless, first-person narrator began speaking for half a chapter before dropping out.

Too many of these passages went something like this:

"Question bounces off unheeded as the naked man gets up off the bed, takes a pencil from the top of the bookcase near the bed and sticks it in to mark the page. He puts the book on the case and sits back down on the bed, pushing his back against the head and drawing up his knees."

And 40 pages later, this:

"The naked man stood up on the bed and tried to reach over to the door and take down a pair of trousers hanging on a nail behind it, but at his touch the door swung left and away from him, and he had to jump down and go round to get the trousers. He slipped them on over his naked body and took down a T-shirt from another nail."

Many of these passages called to mind the style of the French New Novelists: painstaking description of moment-by-moment action to create a certain atmosphere, combined with a deemphasis of character, background and plot. Maybe this style was considered suitable for conveying the atmosphere of powerlessness. Disliking the style, I found it tedious and hard to appreciate.

Closer toward the books end, more of the main characters thoughts began to be gradually introduced. The last third of the novel, describing an important dinner at the main characters home with a corrupt representative of the regime and the fateful aftermath, was written in a more realistic way and told a more dramatic story, where plot and character came more sharply into focus. The ending seemed appropriate and was far from optimistic.

For me, the novel was most memorable for its descriptions of the indignities of the new country: enslaving admiration for those with material wealth, no matter how it was gained the humiliation and envy of those who lacked it a dead-end job and the virtual absence of hope or an opportunity to better oneself corruption and the pressure to join in and trade integrity for scraps, for the sake of ones children. And the ultimate futility of it all, what the author called the "horrible cycle of the powerless."

The novel was also memorable for its variety of pungent images of filth, which served to communicate both the urban atmosphere and moral decay:

"Sounds arise and kill all smells as the bus pulls into the dormitory town. Past the big public lavatory the stench claws inward to the throat. Sometimes it is understandable that people spit so much, when all around decaying things push inward and mix all the bodys juices with the taste of rot . . . . Hot smell of caked s--- split by afternoons baking sun, now touched by still evaporating dew. The nostrils, incredibly, are joined in a way that is most horrifying direct to the throat itself and to the entrails right through to their end."

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