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Article Title: Beyond Complexion, Class and Race: An Ecocritical Study of Alex La Guma's a Walk in the Night and a Threefold Cord
by Ogbeide O. Victor

Abstract:
This paper is an ecocritical study of Alex La Guma's A Walk in the Night and And a Threefold Cold. While many critics over the years have focused on the human dimension of apartheid in South Africa, virtually none has bordered about the republic's environment. In its imaginative journey to apartheid South Africa via a path not often taken by critics, this paper contends that the South African environment suffers degradation, neglect and destruction as much as the hapless non-white in the republic courtesy of its policy of �herding� people into little spaces leading to slums where the pervading perfume of bitter dereliction holds sway. The purpose of this research is located on the need for the Republic of South Africa, and indeed, many African countries to evolve environment-friendly policies which will ensure a relatively even distribution of their population. Even so, the overall significance of this research is the need for the world to be more conscious of the need to care for its environment. This is because in the final analysis, there can never be social justice without environmental justice.

Keywords: justice, environment, ecocriticism, apartheid, non-white, ecologists, nature

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