To what extent is Ayi Kwei Armah's The Healers a call for unity, oneness, solidarity, and the rebirth of a new Africa?

The Healers presents a society that is being torn apart, with damaging and often fatal effects on its people. Healing is both a literal occupation (and necessary activity in regard to treating sick people) and a metaphor for supplying the social unity that is sorely lacking. Densu, the protagonist, is shown to represent belief in traditional culture through his participation in its manhood rituals. This attachment is further shown when, after escaping a miscarriage of justice, he joins Damfo and his group of healers in the forest. Araba Jesiwa, mother of the murdered prince Appia, is recuperating in this community.
The simple ways of the healers, however, are not adequate to restore social wholeness. Araba Jesiwa, who had been presumed dead, is also the symbolic mother of all the Asante; her recovery is key to the prescribed social unity. The excesses of both sides, represented by the two generals—the resentful Asante Asamoa Nkwanta and the arrogant British Wolseley—put forward serious obstacles to progress. Densu cannot hide away from his social responsibilities, which include helping numerous tribes to unite against the British. At the same time, the author suggests, the Africans should use the best of the British system, such as the courts that exonerate Densu.