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Other Cultures and Traditions
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Other Cultures and Traditions The authors of "Nothings Changed" and "Desiree's Baby" are interested in the inequality between white and black people. The poem is set in Cape Town's District Six in South Africa, where Tatumkhulu Afrika used to live. The poem is an autobiographical piece expressing the poet's feelings about how the white government destroyed his community so whites could move onto the land. The story is set in much earlier Louisiana, where white plantation owners kept black slaves. Both the poem and story show forms of prejudice against black people. Afrika returned to District Six after the official end of the apartheid. The poem was written in about the 1990.'s. In Cape Town's District Six, people from all cultures, of all colour and beliefs lived together peacefully, before the houses were destroyed. In the first stanza Afrika is describing the run down area, the poet seems neutral at this...
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