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SUMMARY
In this study, we have been able to look at the subjects and style of Festus Iyayi’s Violence and Tendai Huchu's The Hairdresser of Harare. We have looked at the theme of class stratification, poverty and social injustice. Class Stratification is seen as demonstrated earlier, the means of class struggles in Nigeria and other African countries which causes a whole lot of problems for any country’s development. Poverty causes a whole lot of problems for people who cannot afford two square meals as illustrated in the novel. Poverty most times reduces the masses to stealing in order to survive the hard and trying times. Because the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer, nobody is going to save the poor. Rather, they go through perpetual anguish in order to feed. We also looked at social injustice as depicted in the novel. Ideologies of all kinds leave a void in peoples' social interactions. Injustice is common in a stratified setting because the last group in the society, mostly the peasants, complains about lack of income and no food to feed. They are deprived of the best things in life and affordable government facilities. We did, however, examine the narrating style. We critically evaluated them. The writers employed irony, symbolism and foregrounding. All of these devices are employed for aesthetics which Iyayi and Huchu artistically employed fully. Nevertheless, we looked at foregrounding as a style of narration. We looked at class stratification as the major problem Africans face. Also, we looked at some of the effects of class struggles like poverty and social injustice we see 33 around every day. Tendai and Festus copiously employed it to make it a work to be acted on in order to have a balanced nation.
