The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah

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 central story in this book tells of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn.