Patience nabakooza

SONS AND DAUGHTERS

Sons and Daughters is the title of this story written by Joe De Graft. It was first published in
1964 and reprinted in 1969, 1974, 1979, and 2006.

The author has in the course of his career written several plays and been a lecturer at the
University of Nairobi Kenya. Sons and daughters will deal with family life and the tensions that
result from the clash of two different generations in an area of rapid social change.

Elders are not to be challenged in a typical African setting, especially when it comes to choosing
their wards. James Ofosu, father of Aron Ofusu and Manan, believes that education is critical to
success and wealth, and he will go to great lengths to educate his children and choose their
profession for them, even if they prefer a lowly and "useless" profession.

James had little education but believed that by dreaming of his children joining the elite in
society as engineers, lawyers, chartered accountants, medical officers, and blankers, he could
bring class and status to his family just as he admires his good friend lawyer Bonu.

James Ofosu wants his children to respect his authority and recognize the sacrifices he makes for
their education, as his older sons George, a doctor, and Kofi, a chatty accountant, seem to make
him believe, rather than the unconventional brothers Aaron and Maanan.

Mr. Ofosu's wife Hanna, an illiterate woman, plays the part of a subservient yet critical wife who
would not let her slightly educated husband who occasionally loses himself and attempts to shut
down his wife u[because she claims she knows nothing about education] shut down. This is a
fascinating depiction of how uneducated women exploited their household skills throughout that
historical period, despite their lack of official schooling.

Before I go into detail, I just gave a quick rundown of Sons and Daughters Act 1 and some of
Act 2.

Nuclear Family Interference is one of the topics evident in the preceding sample, as we can
see Aunt Fosuwa attempting to meddle with Hannan and her children's family problems. Aunt
Fosuwa was the sister of James Ofosu, she blames Hanna for enabling were to court Maanan
instead of lawyer Bonu, “Hannah: What are you going to tell James? What has Maanan done?

Aunt: If you kept your eyes open you would know. But I will not sit by with my hands
between my legs while my brother is ruined. Maanan: But what I have done? “ AS
we can see she is trying to enter that matters between a family yet she has her own
family.
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As the act goes on we can see that there is a conflict going on between Hanna and Aunt Fosuwa
“Aunt: Interference! [Getting quarrelsome] Is it interference to want my niece properly married?
Tell – is it? “ Hanna: I have said all I have to say.

Aunt: I haven’t yet! And whose house do you think this is? I ask you – whose? So long as I
remain in this house …

Hannah: You mean so long as I remain in this house! I knew you would come round come
around to that sooner or later: you always have. But I am not here because I like being here; I”

In the scene, Hanna has love and is Loyal to James she can’t just leave her family and she has
the passion and is willing to be with James these are the words Hannah told Aunt Fosuwa: You
will not understand, Fosuwaa – you never will; but when a woman a has lived with her husband
as long as I have with James and has had children with him as old as mine and has helped him to
build all he has from nothing – a woman who has done all this does not get up one day and leave
her husband the way you suggest, even if the woman has relatives like you.”

As we can see in Act 2 we can see how Aunt Fosuwa is trying to interfere in matters that don’t
concern her and we can see, also tries to call James Bonsu’s house her own she has no respect for
Hanna and Maanan although she tries to chase Hanna from the house Hanna decides to stay
because she loves her family and is a loyal wife to James Bonsu, this kinder made aunt Fosuwa
angry which resulted then to having a small conflict with Hanna arguing who is to leave and who
is to stay in the house.
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