Research Article | Open Access
Healers of Post-colonial Ghana in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments
J. Snow Berry, Dr. V. Rejulin Jerin Kumar
Pages: 9105-9108
Abstract
The colonial nations in Africa had been controlled by several imperialistic governments. Years of slavery distorted even souls of the people of Africa. Healers are the best-known people who liberate the imprisoned souls of West African natives. Ghana is a West African nation colonised by the British rulers until 1957. The colonial domination replaced the traditional medicines with the Western medicines. The replacement diminished the method of psychological healing followed by the traditional healersin addition to physical healing. The psychological suppression sustained to Ghana even after independence of the nation. The present paper decodes the ways by which the intellects of the post-colonial Ghana healed the psychological wounds of the natives. It emphasises the ways the intellects used to reunite the African people by analysing the events happening in the novel Fragments by Ayi Kwei Armah. The paper focuses both on the causes and effects of theintellects of Ghana as healers of post-colonial nation. It also analyses the disillusionment experienced by the intellects of the society for their deeds.
Keywords
Traditional, Colonial, Healer.