Here, Ayi Kwei Armah's five novels, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Fragments, Two Thousand Seasons, The Healers and Osiris Rising are examined. Drawing on a thorough discussion of the five novels the book probes the resistive moves in the works of this Ghanian writer. Hope in the Midst of Despair looks at Armah's early works as Arfica's most piercing and daring protest fiction. Based on this proposition his later works as discussed in terms of offering a cure for the diseased' continent.'
