HUMILIATION AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE IN ATHOL FUGARD’S SIZWE BANSI IS DEAD AND NGUGI WA THIONGO’S THE TRIAL OF DEDAN KIMATHI
HUMILIATION AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE IN ATHOL FUGARD’S SIZWE BANSI IS DEAD AND NGUGI WA THIONGO’S THE TRIAL OF DEDAN KIMATHI
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page
Declaration
Certification
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Abstract
Table of contents
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
1.2 Statement of the Problem
1.3 Purpose of the Study
1.4 Significance of the Study
1.5 Research Methodology
1.6 Scope and Limitation of the Study
1.7 Objectives of the Study
1.8 Bio-Data of Athol Fugard
1.9 Bio-Data of Ngugi Wa Thiongo
CHAPTER TWO
Review of Related Literature
CHAPTER THREE- HUMILIATION AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE IN ATHOL FUGARD’S SIZWE BANSI IS DEAD
3.1 Analysis of Sizwe Bansi is Dead
3.2 Themes in Fugard’s Size Bansi is Dead
3.3 Characterization in Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead
3.4 Styles in Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead
CHAPTER FOUR- HUMILIATION AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE IN NGUGI WA THIONGO’S THE TRIAL OF DEDAN KIMATHI
4.1 Analysis of Ngugi’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
4.2 Themes in Ngugi’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi-
4.3 Styles in Ngugi’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
4.4 Characterization in Ngugi’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
CHAPTER FIVE- SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Summary
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendations
Works Cited
ABSTRACT
This research work examines Humiliation and social injustice in Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi Is Dead and Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s The Trial Of Dedan Kimathi. In Sizwe Bansi is Dead the author portrays the problems experienced by the Africans during apartheid regime. It portrays the struggles of African to attain equal right and to be treated as human beings. The study shows that the black South Africa pass through oppression, humiliation and their rights were restricted because of lack of passbook and skin colour.
While in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, the author pictures a society with two classes of people- the rich and the poor people of Kenya, who suffered exploitation, disillusionment, oppression, humiliation, discrimination and dehumanization during and after colonialism.
In conclusion, the plays expose these social injustices and deprivations of the poor masses of their human rights by the whites. The study, therefore, recommends that the policy of racial segregation and other forms of inhuman treatments and oppression by the colonial masters should be aborted for the betterment of the blacks in South Africa.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
This study examines humiliation and social injustice in Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead and Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s The Trials of Dedan Kamathi.
Undeniably, African writers have always used their works to comment on current socio-political affairs and act as the mouthpiece of the downtrodden. Their works are stepped in as social issues that affect the poor masses, oppression, discrimination and disillusionment against the colonial masters during and after independence.
Consequently, this make Fugard and Ngugi to portray in these plays portray how the colonial masters impose various social injustices like discrimination, exploitation, dehumanization and disillusionment during the period of independent.
HUMILIATION AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE IN ATHOL FUGARD’S SIZWE BANSI IS DEAD AND NGUGI WA THIONGO’S THE TRIAL OF DEDAN KIMATHI
Indeed, this statement buttressed Chinua Achebe to said that “any African who tries to avoid the big social and political issues of contemporary Africa will end up being completely irrelevant like that absorb man in the proverb who leaves his house burning to pursue a rat fleeing from the flames” (78).
In addition, in support of Achebe’s point of view, Ngugi in his critical work, Homecoming, posits that “literature does not develop in a vacuum.
In any case, it gives impetus, shape, direction and even area of concern by the social, political and economic forces in a particular society. He further states that the relationship between creative literature and other forces cannot be ignored especially in Africa where modern literature has grown against the gory background of European imperialism” (15).
Therefore, the above quotation has shown that Athol Fugard and Ngugi Wa Thiongo use their literary works in examining and portraying the evil which the whites have imposed towards the blacks. Thus, how they were oppressed, discriminated, dehumanized and disillusioned in their own land as seen in Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead. How passbook imposes limits on the employment and travels of all the black citizens in South Africa. Humiliation and social injustice in Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is dead and Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s the trial of Dedan Kimathi.
These two writers examine the lives of the entire blacks how they are oppressed, discriminated and disillusioned because of the whites. It is on this note that the researcher writes on the humiliation and social injustice as the background of the study.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
As examined by these two playwrights under investigation. The two novels portray how the blacks experience various emotional traumas like oppression, discrimination and disillusionment during the time of colonialism. Therefore, this statement forms the research problem with reference to the events in the two plays under study.
1.3 Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study is to investigate the humiliation and social injustice in Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead and Ngugi Wa Thiongo’sThe Trial of Dedan Kimathi.
1.4 Significance of the Study
This study will be of significance to English and literature students because of the two writers use their creative works to portray how the black Africans had suffered in the hands of the minority white colonial masters in East and South Africa.
The study will also be of important to other researchers who may find this work researchable as a ready tool/material for further researches.
1.5 Research Methodology
The major sources of this research work will focus on Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead and Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi.
In addition, the secondary sources of the study will employ novels from library, internet, and articles based on the research topic.
1.6 Scope and Limitation of the Study
The scope of this research work will be limited to Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead and Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi.
1.7 Objectives of the Study
The objectives of this study are:
(i) to examine humiliation and social injustice in the two novels under study
(ii) to investigate the causes and consequences of humiliation and social injustice in the two selected plays under investigation.
(iii) to investigate the author’s aim of writing Siewe Bansi is Dead and The Trial of Dedan Kimathi.
Conclusion
This research work was carried out to expose the ugly humiliation and a social injustice in Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead and Ngugi’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi. There is no gainsaying on the fact that, the blacks have suffered in the hands of the whites especially during apartheid in South Africa. Humiliation and social injustice in Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is dead and Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s the trial of Dedan Kimathi.
However, this system of racial stratification began to take form in South Africa under the ditch Empire in the late eighteenth century. From the analysis in these two novels Sizwe Bansi is Dead andThe Trial of Dedan Kimathi the study has shown that Africa as a whole have suffers from different inhuman treatment of all sorts during colonialism, apartheid system and racism in Africa.
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