ABSTRACT
Fouad Mami says Ayi Kwei Armah understood intellectuals of the African renaissance as about a “relentless intellectual campaign for articulating the ways in which the ‘right’ and committed intellectuals can be singled out from what he takes as multitudes of pseudo- or parvenu academics” (Mami 2011). This is part of his deep concern for finding and enabling that genuine Africa-centred perspective of life, for redeeming Africa from the epistemic, social and economic injustice that has dwarfed, distorted and silenced the African perspective and agency in more ways than one. This also explains Armah’s long-standing commitment to the cause of recentring African ethos in the education of the African child; this is about the text/archive, the curriculum and the pedagogy of the classroom. Armah has spent decades of his intellectual life seeking to understand the deep-seated impacts of an otherwise short period of colonial rule, including its ramifications on the psyche of Africans of others about Africa and Africans.
