A Writer in Search of Black Freedom and Beauty: Alex La Guma’s A Walk in the Night

Abstract

Oral literature is the major form of literature in Africa, and it has existed for a long time. Because of the widespread illiteracy in Africa, the creation of written literature took a long time. As we have learned from history, black people have been subjected to discrimination by the white race throughout the period of slavery. The novel investigates the ills of racism, which deprives individuals of their basic human rights. The work's approach and method are based on sociological, postcolonial, and Marxist theories. The major cause of the creation of protest writing in South Africa and Africa as a whole is shown in this test. Finally, the conversation demonstrated that, as an African writer, Alex La Guma is dedicated to questioning gender, racism, and aesthetic systems. In order to do this, he showed that the female characters are discriminated against because of their gender and skin color.