Salvation History in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons

This paper investigates Ayi Kwei Armah’s discourse in Two Thousand Seasons (1973) and unveils the philosophy of history articulated in his narrative. It is premised on the idea that the historiography charted in the novel is modeled on American Puritans’ salvation history, also called ecclesiastical history. Armah returned to this apocalyptic tradition to contest various versions of African history and to produce a historical eschatological ideal which encompasses the past, the present, and the future of the African continent.