Abstract
M.A.
The aim of this study is to examine cultural conflict in selected novels of
D.P Moloto. The aspects of culture that will receive attention in this study
are as follows; kingship, marriage, religion and rituals. Conflict, in this
instance, refers to cultural clashes, and in particular the clash between
Western and African norms and values, that is, whites and blacks. This
study will discuss the role that has been played by missionaries in their
first encounter with the Batswana and how the Batswana responded
towards the encounter.
This study will further reveal the cultural clash between Africans, that is,
blacks and blacks, how they struggled for cultural hegemony and how they
terrorised one another through warfare to obtain absolute dominance.
The researcher intends to reveal what Moloto had in mind when writing
these novels, Moji Motlhabi and Mokwena. His aim was to enhance and
evoke the Batswana culture that was gradually fading.