The role of language in facilitating connections between individuals across diverse cultural and generational contexts is a matter of significant academic and societal importance. This topic merits greater attention from linguists, as evidenced by the works of scholars including Halliday & Hasan (1976), Eggins (2004), and Halliday & Matthiessen (2004). They have explored language and its functions from diverse perspectives, encompassing the various ways in which language is used among individuals. The present study sets out to examine the internal organisation of phrases, sentences and paragraphs in three selected extracts from Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968). This approach facilitates the identification of the manner in which linguistic elements such as reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion are interwoven to construct meaning in the selected texts. A mixed-method approach to data collection was employed, resulting in the identification, analysis and interpretation of findings that revealed the presence of all the different types of cohesive ties as described by Halliday and Hasan (1976). These ties were found to vary in terms of their distribution, with different rates observed between each extract. The analysis of the findings indicates that the novel’s use of language fosters cohesion, functioning not only as a linguistic medium for textual stability, but also as a stylistic approach that unveils the moral ambiguity, disunion and psychological conflict experienced by the protagonist.