My children my africa

Race means inequality in this book. Athol Fugard is a white South African, and saw the impact of apartheid second-hand through the experiences of his black friends and the black actors in a theater group he worked with. He wrote My Children! My Africa! to expose some of the ongoing struggles of apartheid in the 1980s, particularly related to education. Apartheid was a system of segregation laws that kept black South Africans from the spaces and resources to which whites had privileged access. In My Children! My Africa!, two of the characters are black, and one is white. Isabel, the white character, initially thinks that the black characters will be grateful to her for visiting their school and will not equal her intelligence and personhood. However, she comes to love both Thami and Mr. M, and recognize through them the way the difficulty and importance of the struggle against apartheid. Thami and Mr. M are both proud of their race and their racial heritage, even if they have different ideologies abou