Bulak Power Analysis

In the chapter “Blak Power”, Bulawayo suggests that people begin claiming their identity when they are defending what is theirs. Bulawayo set the scene in Zimbabwe where a mob of nationalists go to Budapest to take the white couple away from their home. The white man claims, ‘“I am an African, he says. This is my fucking country too, my father was born here, I was born here, just like you! His voice is so full of pain it’s as if there is something that is searing him deep in his blood.” (Bulawayo 121). In most case, a white man would not claim to be African. Yet, Bulawayo makes the man say that he was born and raised in Zimbabwe just like them, to raise the question of why is he claiming to be African. She says his voice is painful