Two Thousand Seasons

Two Thousand Seasons is a novel by Ghanaian novelist Ayi Kwei Armah.

It is an epic historical novel, attempting to depict the last "two thousand seasons" of African history in one narrative arc following a Pan-African approach.

[1] For Armah, the intervention of outside cultures violates a past "African ideal [...] egalitarian philosophy" which can help guide the recovery of, what critic Chinyere Nwahunanya calls a "lost African Eden".

[1] The review focuses on Armah's oversimplification of the African continent's "actual sad history".

[1] Gloria Steinem in a 2016 article for T: The New York Times Style Magazine chose Two Thousand Seasons as one of her 10 favourite books and said of Ayi Kwei Armah: "He not only redefines history, but how history is told.