In My Children! My Africa!, Athol Fugard shows how the apartheid regime reserved wealth and power for white people by dividing South African society along a racial line and ruthlessly exploiting the Black majority. But the racial divide also serves another purpose: it geographically, socially, and politically separates groups of people from one another, in order to try and prevent white people from recognizing non-white people’s humanity and fighting for social equality.
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