The International Social Studies Project
in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Suggested Questions for Class Discussion

 

What were the effects of European colonialism on Africa? To what degree are they still relevant?

 

Why is the political and social situation in Africa still so unstable?

 

How would a system like apartheid affect ordinary people in South Africa? How would those lives be affected when the system changed?

 

What are the different roles that the characters play in the society depicted? How are they different from each other?

 

How do religious issues affect the behaviors of the characters in the play?

 

Playwright Neil McCarthy writes that "Confusion is the accepted state of mind for many South Africans at the moment." What are the causes of confusion for the characters in the play?


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