Multiple Consciousness: Laye Camara ’S The Dark Child and Richard Wright’s Black Boy
Multiple Consciousness: Laye Camara ’S The Dark Child and Richard Wright’s Black Boy

Summary/Abstract: This article re-examines Camara Laye’s The Dark Child, a major African literary canon novel, against the tendency to consider it a nonconfrontational novel regarding racism and colonization. From a multiple colonial historical background, this book’s pretentious title, compared to the consciousness of its American counterpart (Richard Wright’s Black Boy), fails to give satisfaction to important issues of the clashes between Africa and the West. The unique aspect of this article is that if reveals how the ostensible African black boy got stuck many a time in the quicksand of color.

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