Fragments by Ayi Kwei Armah aka The Water Brought Us is

The Water Brought Us is Common Ground’s ode to the Motherland and the African Diaspora

ISBN: 978-0-9785531- 4-2

It articulates and expands upon the key Black mental health construct of Cultural Misorientation and demonstrates the manner in which this heretofore unrecognized/unacknowledged

the author clearly lays out our sources of power and the tools that must be acquired

Fragments by Ayi Kwei Armah aka The Water Brought Us isA member of the African elite groping its way out of the background of slavery and colonialism, Baako see his education as preparation for the lifework of a socially innovative artist. his family, more pragmatic, expects an elite resume to convert into power and wealth in the real world here and now. Unable to harmonize countervailing needs with wider social aspirations, both family and individual drift toward confrontation and inexorable loss.