Kenya And South Africa Essay

Kenya and South Africa were victims of the dramatic consequences of the Whites’ domination. Indeed, dispossessed of their means of survival, Kenyan local farmers, who did not have much room for manoeuvre, converted themselves into job-beggars, living on Mexican breakfasts. To mop up the dirt-poor dirt nap in which they were then drawn, they started selling their sweat of labour to the new ‘master’. In so doing, the invaders, by large, turned the Kenya into a camp where life fell to bits. And to eke out a living, the indigenous populations, at the drop of a hat, turned turmoil alike and rushed to burn the midnight oil in the White man’s new field.

This dark period of the Kenyan history was and continue to be a source of inspiration and reflexion

Implemented in 1948, the apartheid regime gave birth to a society which was organized into a social pyramid with Whites at the top. The black man’s dignity and humanity were trampled underfoot by the intruder who considered himself to be God’s favourite. Any form of resistance was smothered by the discriminating regime. Consequently, South Africa was fastened down a political and economic system in which there was no room for black and other nonwhite communities to feel free and enjoy justice.

However, although the autochthons did not have elbow room to withstand the white man’s terrible onslaughts, they gave themselves over to revolutionary and underground movements through which they fire back to fit out with the necessities of life.

It is in this context of domination and resistance in Kenya and South Africa that we propose to make an in-depth analysis of the notion of Feloniousness through Ngugi’s A Grain of Wheat and and Alex La Guma’s A Walk in the Night.

To better apprehend responsibilities, will drill down the impact of the sociological environment on the psychological state and evolution of the guilty character. Indeed, some specific social parameters impacted a lot on the colonizers’ and colonized’s reactions. Hence the need to look at these social aspects with a magnifying glass to better read

It can determine the way of life and the psychological reactions of an individual once he or she comes of age. Mugo, in GW, was an unfortunate child who had not the opportunity to grow up with his own parents :"Mugo’s father and mother died poor, leaving him an only child in the hands of a distant aunt, Waithero" (Ngugi wa Thiong’o, 1967). His relationships with his choosy aunt found ground on hatred ; what inevitably moulded a particular personality in the orphan child. His childhood was an expression of a threadbare existence. He was daily treated as a good-for-nothing boy enjoying no rights to voice his mind. With neither friends nor playmates, Mugo was secluded and totally cut off the rest of his community. The bedroom he used to share with her aunt would serve as a pen for Waitherero’s goats and