# The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ghana, 1968

This novel is a treatment of the theme of corruption wrought by poverty. It is the story of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn even from those he loves.

ISBN: 9780435900434

## See also

- [Ayi Kwei Armah](https://africantales.net/authors/ayi-kwei-armah)
- [More from Ghana](https://africantales.net/countries/GHA)
- [Political Fiction](https://africantales.net/genres/political-fiction)
- [Classic](https://africantales.net/genres/classic)
- [The 1960s](https://africantales.net/decades/1960s)

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