What are ways "The Deep River" by Bessie Head relates to the theme of identity? Include both personal and cultural identity issues in your discussion.

Heads
story is about identity and individuality. The Monemapee live with one face under the rule of
their chief. The chief makes all the decisions, such as when to plough, when to harvest, and
when to prepare the crops, and the people simply follow his orders. The unity and security of
this arrangement is what is meant by the deep river of the titlethat is, the tribe is at peace
and protected as if they were suspended in a deep river. The phrase also suggests another river:
the River Lethe, the river of forgetfulness in the Greek underworld. The communal memory of the
tribe is reduced to a single wordTalaote. The tribe may act as if they have one face, but
during their journey southwards, they have forgotten where they came from and what their
original language was. 

When the old chief dies, his eldest son, Sebembele,
announces that he is in love with the old chiefs youngest wife, Rankwana, and that the old
chiefs youngest son, still a baby, is in fact...