This paper investigates Ayi Kwei Armah's discourse in TwoThousand 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 ofAfrican history and to produce a historical eschatological ideal which encompasses the past, the present, and the future of the African continent.This article attempts to unveil the philosophy of history deployed in Ayi Kwei Armah's fourth novel Two Thousand Seasons (1973). Armah is a Ghanaian writer, whose reputation was established by the biting social and political satire of his earlier novels, namely The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Fragments (1970), and Why Are We So Blest (1972). In these social commentaries he fiercely assaulted the failure of African governments to achieve the promises of independence and the increasing Westernization of African cultures under neo-colonialism. With the publication of Two Thousand Seasons, however, he shifted his interest in social reality and political leadership toward a deep concern with the continent's past. His ambitious project led him to engage the field of history, to adopt the form and voice of traditional oral epics, and to envision an eschatological pan-African ideal.Central to the plot of Two Thousand Seasons is the episode of the slave trade during the last millennium. This episode is revisited via a communalized narrator, who recounts the native revolts against the Arab 399

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