In the context of oppression censorship and the coercive quest for comfort and silence at the expense of the oppressed, Baldwin tells us the artist must become and be “the incorrigible disturber the peace”. He says, “It really gets to the place where political and artistic responsibilities meet” and it is here that artists must join their people in the struggle for liberation and ever higher levels of human life resulting in continuing and expanding African and human good and the well-being of the world and all in it.
