A Stylistic Appraisal of Ayi Kwei Armahas The Beautyful Ones are not Yet Born

Abstract

The paper examines language use in African fiction through a stylistic appraisal of Ayi Kwei Armah s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born A fiction which ponders on the corruption that pervades Ghana even after independence the novel reveals interesting societal vices through the hero The Man This study mainly investigates the stylistic features in the novel hinging heavily on the theory of cohesion in discourse and reveals that various stylistic features are used by the novelist to communicate the writer s thematic concerns They include substitution repetition conjunctions digression temporal abridgement and figurative language