<Tr> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Td> Houghton Mifflin </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 1968 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the debut novel by Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah . It was published in 1968 by Houghton Mifflin, and then republished in the influential Heinemann African Writers Series in 1969 . The novel tells the story of a nameless man who struggles to reconcile himself with the reality of post-independence Ghana . </P> <P> The unnamed protagonist, referred to as "the man", works at a railway station and is approached with a bribe; when he refuses, his wife is furious and he can't help feeling guilty despite his innocence . The action takes place between 1965's Passion Week and 25 February 1966--the day after the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president . </P>

The beautiful ones are not yet born novel