"Sizwe Banzi is Dead" - A play that exposed the apartheid system in South Africa.
How people who were taught this in school, are not awakened is still a bother. Well, the banking educational system did the damage with partnerships from some of its cohorts also.
In the book, Modern Africa Drama - Adefolaju Adeseke explained the plot of the drama
"Apartheid policy which is the political system by which different races co-exist within the same nation but do not have equal political, social, and economic rights, (Oyetunde in Fugard et al: 1991) negates the fundamental human rights of black people. In apartheid South Africa, blacks did not have the right to participate in politics, good employment opportunities, and qualitative education. The blacks could not move freely in areas designated for the whites; they could not attend the same church with the whites let alone shopping in the same supermarket with them."
My plea go back to the African written plays, and novels and read it this time around as a conscious soul, not a soul designed to just pass an exam.
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