Challenges to Black African Immigrants’ Ethnicity in Johannesburg as Depicted in Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country

Abstract

This paper aimed at exploring the devastating impact on Black African migrants’ ethnic identity in South Africa as depicted in Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country. The study illustrated how various linguistic forms were not in favour of the down trodden when it came to their ethnic identity as well as the powerful white South Africans. The researcher has adopted a check list as a tool for data collection as well as other CDA approaches such as emphasizing positive things about us, and emphasizing negative things about them used to express ideology as well as cause and effect. The paper revealed the following important findings: the African immigrants are not in favor with the cultural dimension, and it accounts for (80%) while 60% of the white setters are in favor with the cultural dimension, most of the Black African immigrants are not in favor with the economic dimension which represented (75%) whereas the white settlers accounted for100% in favor with the economic dimension.