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ENG2603 Assignment 3 2024 - DUE 13 September 2024
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In Welcome to Our Hilbrow, Refentše is depicted as a creative writer who notes a problem with
the suppression of writing literature in African languages. In one of the passages in the novel
Refentše is addressing Refilwe about the difficulties of writing in a language NOT of one’s own.
Refentše says: She did not know that writing in an Afri-can language in South Africa could be
such a curse. She had not anticipated that the publishers’ reviewers would brand her novel
vulgar. Calling shit and genitalia by their cor-rect names in Sepedi was apparently regarded as
vulgar by these reviewers, who had for a long time been reviewing works of fiction for
educational publishers, and who were deter-mined to ensure that such works did not of-fend the
systems that they served. These systems were very inconsistent in their attitudes to education.
They considered it fine, for instance, to call genitalia by their cor-rect names in English and
Afrikaans biology books—even gave these names graphic pic-tures as escorts—yet in all other
languages, they criminalised such linguistic honesty. . . . In 1995, despite the so-called new
dispensa-tion, nothing had really changed. The leg-acy of Apartheid censors still shackled those
who dreamed of writing freely in an African The leg-acy of Apartheid censors still shackled
those who dreamed of writing freely in an African language. Publishers, scared of being found to
be on the financially dangerous side of the censorship border, still rejected manuscripts that too
realistically called things by their proper names—names that people of Tirag-along and Hillbrow
and everywhere in the world used every day. (Welcome to Our Hillbrow, 56, 57) Assignment
Task Read the above passage and consider its significance in the African writers’ debates on
which languages to use when writing African literature. Carefully consult and read Obiajunwa
Wali’s essay, The Dead end of African Literature? (2007) Ngugi wa Thiongo essay, “The
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