When the characters of My Children! My Africa! give monologues alone onstage they are able to reveal things to the audience that they can't say to one another. The relationships between the characters are quite constrained by age, race, and propriety; Thami and Mr. M have difficulty communicating because of their roles as teacher and student, while Isabel and Thami have different views on race relations and gender equality. During these monologues, the audience can travel in time to Thami's past as he reflects on his views on education under apartheid, or hear Isabel's true thoughts about the location before she became friends with anyone from there. The plot is punctuated by these interspersed monologues, and they deepen the audience's understanding
