| dc.description.abstract | Whenever the African continent is mentioned, negative connotations such as
underdevelopment, poverty, inequality, war, and migration issues are frequently
evoked. Migration and issues associated with it also occupy centre stage in public
debates about Africa. The aforementioned problems obstruct African growth, which
gave rise to the notion of going from "tragedy to Renaissance." This study is centred
on the exclusion of African migrants in South Africa and how such exclusion
undermines the African Renaissance, a "development plan for Africa" that seeks to
unite African nations for stability, peace, and security as well as for improved living
conditions across the entire continent. The researcher theorised that the tragedy of
the African Renaissance depicts the exclusion, suffering, and xenophobia faced by
African migrants in South Africa based on observations on literary arts, particularly tragedy in drama, which is about human suffering or death.
In the main, this study aims to ascertain whether or not South African citizens and
state institutions exclude African immigrants, and find out what the key causes and
dimensions of the exclusion of African immigrants in South Africa are. The study
achieves this by combining qualitative and quantitative research approaches or using
a mixed/hybrid method of social science research. Since this is a desktop study, data
relevant to the study were analysed using both content analysis and critical discourse
analysis. The critical finding of the study indicates that the exclusion of African
immigrants in South Africa is a result of the state and non-state agents’ failure to build
a social infrastructure enabling the peaceful establishment of a two-tier society made
up of both citizens and non-citizens. As a result, this study recommends educating the
general public about anti-migrant violence and suggests that the commitment and
practice of the African Renaissance are important to pave the way for the
development, social cohesion, protection and inclusion of all migrants in South Africa,
the rest of the continent and the world. | en_US |
