{"title":"Ayi Kwei Armah","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"fragments","title":"Fragments","description":"\u003cdiv data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-id=\"t44kun-gggci-uwmrcf-2vlwjx\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-asin=\"0435901540\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" class=\"celwidget\" id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA young university graduate comes home. He hopes, using his artistic talents, to work with colleagues to awaken his society to possibilities of a new, just social order. So he enters a newly formed state television service. He supposes the powerful communication medium can be used to remind the population of Africa’s best values.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut the political bosses have other ideas. They want to mobilize adoring masses behind one charismatic leader, avid for pharaonic glory. The state spends millions on new television sets. But the appliances are not distributed to schools and social services. They are shared out among officials busy enriching themselves. The young graduate quits his lucrative job. 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The Way of Companions is a lifetime path, chosen by thinkers whose conceptions of the desirable society converge on a precise set of social values. These are the values that, in predynastic antiquity, shaped the lifepath known as the Way of Maât, the Way of Jehwty, or the Way of Osiris.\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\nFirst, the equal worth of all human lives.\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\nSecond, the serious acquisition of uses of numeracy, literacy and scientific knowledge for the steady, peaceful advancement of humanity. Third, the design of an educational institution for all children, PER ANKH, the house of life.\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\nThese ancient African values, now forgotten, are here highlighted, against a background of negative social developments beginning with the rise of monarchical rule, persisting through feudal aristocracies and imperial regimes, all the way to the disastrous economic, political and social inequalities of the world today.\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\nIt has been easy to forget that Africa developed a comprehensive philosophy of egalitarian social change millennia ago. The propagandists of royalty, slavery, colonialism and apartheid have done their work thoroughly. They have made structured social and economic inequality seem natural. They did this partly, by obscuring the truth about Africa’s ancient egalitarian traditions. It is up to us, if we want to live creative lives, to reclaim our lost values—the best of them. 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