Be inventive and amusing while being genuine to the character. Loading... Nightfall in Soweto is only concerned with the white minority's persecution of South Africa's black majority. That poem was motivating. Following that is a poem on racial inequality in South Africa. It's called "A Dream Deferred." Night falls over Soweto. The streets go quiet, except for the occasional car or truck passing by. In the distance, you can hear the noise of partygoers spilling out of pubs and clubs. But here in this neighborhood, there are no parties - just silence. This is what life is like for most people in Soweto. South Africa's apartheid policy divided it into unequal groups based on race: Black people were denied many rights and privileges granted to whites. There was one major street in Soweto called Main Street. On one side of the street were all-black neighborhoods. On the other side were all-white neighborhoods. Children had no choice about which side of the street they lived on. If they were black, then they could not go to the expensive private schools made exclusively for white children. In Nightfall in Soweto, William Carlos Williams describes how the night falls over Soweto. He uses this as a metaphor for the oppression of blacks under white rule.