AMANDLA!... AWETHU Free Essay, Term Paper and Book Report
Amandla! ... Awethu!
(Power!... To us!)
There were the cries, Amandla! Viva! and joy when these were taken up by the whites, and there were the deep dreamy
intonations of the old-time greetings (Gordimer, 1991: 108-109)
And there we are, crying with them, singing, facing the story, almost a historical document written beautifully by Nadine
Gordimer. It is impossible not to get involved, not to become absorbed in the narrative and be part of the fights; those for
the right of freedom and the cultural power of the people, or the internal ones, in Will and Sonnys souls, or those that
emerge when the female characters shift positions from domestic to revolutionary by replacing social stereotypes.
From its beginnings under Dutch and British domination, South Africa lived in a constant racial conflict; a white minority,
only thirteen percent of the population, ruled a large black majority. In 1910, it gained self-rule from the British Empire
and in 1931 it became an independent member of the Commonwealth. Although South Africa had a constitutional government,
segregati......
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