Racism and Exploitation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s and Micere Githa Mugo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi and Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi Is Dead

Kalu K. Obasi and Ozoemena A. John-Kennedy

ABSTRACT


Abstract

The study reveals racism and exploitation as portrayed by Ngugi wa Thiong’O’ and Micere Githea Mugo in the trail of dedans kamahi and Athol Fugard in his Sizwe Bansi is Dead. In the Trial of Dedan Kimathi Ngugi and Micere reveal racism and exploitation in Kenya, where the European acquired more land than the indigenous Kenyan and turned them into slaves in their own country, in Sizwe Bansi Is Dead. Athol Fugard portrays various aspects of racism and exploitation in South Africa where the movement of black are restricted by the use of passbook. The blacks are denied job opportunities, they can only employ in the mines on how wages which is barely enough to sustain them and member of their families. The study veils the struggle gallant Africans in their fight against colonialism.

Keywords: Racism; Dead; Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s; Kenya; Africa.