"Africa Emergent" by Nadine Gordimer

Some hundred years ago, the oppressed broke away from the oppressor. They fought for the freedoms that we have today. Through different movements such as Black power, Black pride, and Black is beautiful, we've come to see the true power that we hold as individuals and a group. When the oppressed secedes from the oppressor, they must free themselves of oppression. Nadine Gordimer explores the theme of defying oppression through the use of characterization, setting, …

…free themselves from the oppressor, but also from the oppression. Freedom from one and not the other does not emancipate nor liberate an individual as much as it retains their inferiority, imprisonment, and oppression. When the oppressed defies oppression they are no longer the puppets of the oppressors and must never return to that. When the oppressed learn to think for themselves they will emancipate themselves; then and only then can they really be free.