The Heart of Redness: A Novel Book

What a book, i enjoy it.As a Xhosa i felt unease because of some the charecters.When reading the book i identify some themes this of course was all done in my understanding.the first theme that seem to prevail throught out the novel is the clash of cultures.this could be seen in Xoliswa Ximiya, she embraces the western culutre at the expense of her traditional culture.she sees her people as being outdated by following the thier culture, her traditional culture is as if its an obstilce for progress.The sad part about all this is that the book maybe fictitious but the content fully depicts the sentiments of some of my people that's the hurting part.Another theme although it did not play out through the novel, is the battle when a man is a man in Xhosa culture.Camagu was the victim of this, when they questioned him of whether he is a man or not. Camagu was in exile for 30 years in America. Obviously there the is no custome as that of Xhosa people, hence they wanted to know whether he was circumcised at they surprise he was. but not in the same manner they consider respectful.Camagu had done it in hospital not in the mountain as expected from Xhosa boys. The last thing that the novel had shown is how greedy and corrupt the cabinet ministers are. and how the so called black empowermant only serves few people who 'NETWORK' their way to the top, by networking in the novel is understood as getting a job corruptly. If i completely missed the mark in analyising this book, please feel free to correct me. As i have sad this was done in my understanding. Another thing analysing books is a new thing that i just started doing for myself.