Exploring the Role of Identity in African and Palestinian Literature: A Comparative Analysis of Racism and Psychological Factors

African and Palestinian narratives are chosen to investigate the thesis statement. A comparative commentary is presented on selected texts from African and Palestinian writers who share similar experiences of social injustice, oppression, and exile due to colonisation, racism, and state violence. More importantly, it is argued how both writers attempt to portray the understanding of external and internal forces that prevail against the motivation of such an existence. Finally, the counter-motivational forces that loom large upon the consciousness of the individual and collective disgrace are discussed in how these writers address their own people. A motivation and design of such an exploration is presented. Comparison of two colonised societies grounded upon racism, a spirit of investigation motivated by a similarity of experiences on both peoples and a rendering of character and nation is said to be open for further investigation. Racism operates on both cultures, and African and Palestinian writers, who rise to prominence, appear sympathetic to the misery of the other (Curtis, 2016). All have either written on pre-colonial and colonial power or violence or state power and violence. Introspection of psychological factors stems from a similar experience of social injustice and oppression and a fashion to discuss such an understanding of events is genre writing. Such a genre gift appears to be used to expose the forces behind misery in order to redeem the honour and dignity of both peoples’ existence. As many African writers, Edward Said in Orientalism, Arab and Muslim scholarship appears to extract and develop in depth knowledge of such understanding.