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A Comparative Analysis of Racial Discrimination in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Kenneth Kaunda’s Zambia Shall be Free

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  • Ogene Mbanefo S.
  • Anyanwu Esther Chikaodi

    (PhD Department of English Language and Literature, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria)

  • Ojiaku Ngini Josephine

    (MA Ugborikoko Secondary School, Effurun, Warri, Nigeria)

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One major problem confronting the definition of Comparative Literature is that of the involvement (on the one hand) of more than one literature under comparison and (on the other hand) that of the consideration of the multidimensional aspects of such literature, such as social, historical, linguistic, religious, economic and cultural aspects of divergent societies. This study is guided by the above factors in analyzing the concept of Racial Discrimination in Southern Africa and African American literatures in the sense that the former’s experiences were on African soil, while the latter’s were on the NewFound land (America). The paper observes that racial discrimination was much severe and oppressive without much resistance in America than in Southern Africa where Africans withstood and fought back against an unjust, wicked and oppressive system.

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  • Ogene Mbanefo S. & Anyanwu Esther Chikaodi & Ojiaku Ngini Josephine, 2017. "A Comparative Analysis of Racial Discrimination in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Kenneth Kaunda’s Zambia Shall be Free," Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, Sciendo, vol. 8(3), pages 343-349, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:mjsosc:v:8:y:2017:i:3:p:343-349:n:33
    DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2017.v8n3p343
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