Fama

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Africa grade: none course: Language and Litterature language: English abstract: This paper examines the character of Fama the protagonist in The Suns of Independence of Ahmadou Kourouma as an exact replica of a foot-soldier in contemporary Ghanaian socioeconomic and political development. In this regard it draws a parallelism between the character of Fama and a foot-soldier and makes recommendations for the way forward in order to sustain socioeconomic and democratic development. Consequently the study draws attention to issues relating to political fanaticism and their accompanying tragic disenchantment for unsuspecting self-seeking citizens in emerging multiparty democratic states in developing countries such as Ghana. In the light of the inherent dangers in self-seeking political activism as seen in the character of Fama for that matter in that of foot-soldiers the study recommends steps that will help sanitize political activities and democratic practice in Ghana and Africa as a whole.