Racism And Aesthetics In Alex La Guma’s A Walk In The Night And Peter Abrahams’ Mine Boy

The dominant literature in Africa had been oral literature, oral literature has been existing since a long time. There was a long delay in the emergence of written literature because of the wide-spread illiteracy in Africa. The blacks have suffered injustice from  the white race right from the time of slavery, this we got to know thru history. It was among this group of Africans that crossed the sea  and came in closer contact with the West, this contact now brought about the first seeds of new literature like Phyllis Wheatly and George Horton, these poets  were prepared to embr…