To achieve this protest, explicit reference to and use of dirty language that are concerned with excretion, sex, and animal abuse are used to establish resistance through hidden transcripts. The vehemently objected and detested conditions include moral decadence, rampant corruption and Europeanism dilemma. Thus, the counter discourses have been achieved as a hidden transcript of resistance through non-euphemistic language intentionally employed to be offensive and show the intensity of resistance and resentment at the post-colonial ills in Africa. This is done by presenting selected texts from the novel and analysing it using principles of counter discourse which resists and protests against the dominant discourse. This article examines Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) as a hidden transcript of resistance to the ills committed by post-colonial African leaders and elites.
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