OPPRESSION AND DISILLUSIONMENT IN ATHOL FUGARD’S SIZWE BANSI IS DEAD AND NGUGI WA THIONGO’S THE TRIAL OF DEDAN KIMATHI
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CHAPTER ONE
1.1 Background to the Study
This study examines oppression and disillusionment in Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead and Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s The Trials of Dedan Kamathi. Though African 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 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 or drama portray how the colonial masters impose various social injustices like discrimination, exploitation, dehumanization and disillusionment during the period of independent. 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 support of Achebe’s point of view, Ngugi in his critical work Homecoming posits that “literature does not develop in a vacuum. 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 creative literature and other forces cannot be ignored especially in Africa where modern literature has grown against the gory background European imperialism” (15).
The above quotation has shown that Athol Fugard and Ngugi Wa Thiongo use their literary works in examiningand portraying the evil which the whites have imposed towards the blacks, 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. According to Fugard, this incident takes away the rights and freedom of the blacks… making them less than human beings. The lives of the entire blacks are contained in this passbook. These blacks were not giving their rights, as they are oppressed, discriminated and disillusioned because of the whites. It is on this note that the researcher writes on the above research topic under investigation.
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. 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 nature of oppression and disillusionment in Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead and Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi.
1.4 Significance of the study
This study will be of significance to English and literature students because of these two writers use their creative works to portray how the blacks 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.
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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. 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 Siewe 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 oppression and disillusionment in the two novels under study
(ii) to investigate the causes and consequences of oppression and disillusionment 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.
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