The Influence of Apartheid on Tatamkhulu Africa’s writing

Abstract

This study illuminates light on the South African writer, poet and political activist who has unusual name and life Tatamkhulu Afrika. Who starts writing when he was at the age of seventeen. After fifty years of remaining silence, he turns his mind to writing and reverses to Islam in 1964. Chapter One sums up, the statement of the study, the significance, the purpose, the questions, the hypotheses and the limitation of the study. Chapter Two, traces the history of the ancient settlers who live in the southern tip of the content before the European arrival to the Cape of Good Hope. The study follows the situation in South Africa after the first European landing in Cape Town, in 1652 the colonies they establish there, and the relation between them and the indigenous inhabitance. Chapter two also points to the wars that broke up between the European and the South African people, like, Zulu-Bore war, Anglo-Zulu war, and Anglo-Boer war which lead at to the unification of South Africa under the British crown. The study shows how Islam predating the European arrival to South Africa and the Muslims role in the development of the place they arrives at. The most inextricable period in South African history which has great influence on Tatamkhulu Afrika’s fate, personality and writing was the period of apartheid which started from 1948 to 1994. The study reveals the most important laws and regulations that issued by the apartheid authorities, consequently followed by the rise of the Anti-apartheid movement. The apartheid government reaction toward the leaders of the movement, by assonating, exiling and incarcerating its leaders in prisons. Chapter Three moves to Tatamkhulu Africa’s life and the main ideas that dominate his verse and fiction. Chapter Four, analysis Afrika’s poems and novels. Chapter five discusses the main results of the study, the conclusions and the recommendation for further studies. As far as the issue of references is concern the study uses, Citation- Sequence system (CS) as it adopted by the scientific journal of Sudan University of Science & technology.