Discursive Consciousness in Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s “The River Between” and Alex Guma’s “A Walk in the Night”

Abstract

The study investigated discursive consciousness in Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s the River Between and Alex La Guna’s a Walk in the Night. The study sought to investigate the extent the ontological state of being, language and identity of the people are expressed in Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s the River Between and Alex La Guna’s a Walk in the Night. It also sought to identify the extent the characters make discursive conscious representation of themselves with respect to gender, race, ethnicity and domination. The researcher also adopted a Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) as the theoretical framework for the study and descriptive and qualitative approaches were adopted in the course of analyzing the work. Findings of the research showed that, that the thematic preoccupations of the two texts under study center on the struggle for leadership, survival and the influence of European culture and religion in Africa. Thus, there is power struggle, cultural and religious clashes between the African society and the whites according to the study.