Woza Albert! was made in the 1970s in South Africa and first performed in 1981. At that time, apartheid, a system of racial segregation, was at its height. It was written by Mbongeni Mgema and Percy Mtwa, with the help of Barney Simon, as a piece of protest theatre, aiming to create awareness and ultimately incite action against the apartheid regime. The African National Congress (ANC) was a political organization in South Africa. It was an anti-apartheid organisation. The Nation Party (NP), the party responsible for apartheid, came to power in 1948. Shortly thereafter, in 1949, the ANC became radicalized and took direct protest action against the apartheid government. Albert Luthuli, to whom the title Woza Albert! to whom he refers, became the leader of the ANC in 1952. During the 1950s the ANC mobilized thousands of people to protest. After the Sharpeville massacre, the ANC was banned in 1960, along with Albert Luthuli, and after that the armed struggle began. There has been a crackdown in South Africa for over a decade. In the early 1970s there was a revival of political opposition, starting with the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) led by Steve Biko. In 1973 there were a series of strikes in Durban, followed by the 1976 uprising, which began in Soweto and soon spread across the country. During this period the anti-apartheid cultural movement gained momentum. Woza Albert! was part of this movement, he also raised awareness of the BCM among the public. The title Woza Albert! asks Albert Luthuli to rise up and unite the people against apartheid. “Woza” means to go up. The exclamation point highlights the urgency of unification through a strong leader.Woza Albert! it is the theater of protest. It's part of the anti-APA... middle of the paper... injustice was prevalent in South Africa at the height of apartheid, oppression towards blacks and the injustice of oppression and lack of l' humanity with which they were treated. This is clear in Woza Albert! in the sixteenth scene where Bobbejaand and Zuluboy are supposed to load ten thousand bricks a day. This communicates a message to the audience and enlightens them about current issues, creates awareness about the priorities they need to maintain and sends them an educational message. anti-apartheid nature of Woza Albert! is clear in the style of the Workshop Theatre, the Poor Theater and the Protest Theatre, as well as the economically constrained staging and themes of oppression and injustice. Protest Theatre's intention, shared with that of Woza Albert!, to create awareness and incite action is also clear in all those areas of Woza Albert!!.