The play “Fences" is a 1985 play by American playwright August Wilson. It is set in the 1950's. Fences critically explores the evolving African- American experience and examines race relations, prejudice, segregation and dehumanization among other themes. In the play, August Wilson's major Concern is to sympathetically put on stage the black experience and thus to arouse the community awareness for such experience. The Black people in the Southern and Northern America are always in Constant quest for self realization and for an authentic identity. Wilson through the play believes that the only way for the African-Americans to transcend their limited existence in the white racist America is by recovering their Africanness and Africa roots. He is keen on reminding the black Americans of their cultural heritages and their separation from their African culture. Similarly, Wilson play can be seen as a record of certain historical episodes in the lives of black Americans throughout the twentieth century. thus, Wilson attempts to find a certain link between blacks and their past. Conclusively, the playwright is presenting a message to remind the black in America of their identity despite their painful sense of alienation. To him. African culture and heritage should not be an element of inferiority; rather, it must be an evidence of pride. Blacks have been all too willing and anxious to say that we are the same as whites, meaning that we should be treated the same and with the same equal opportunities on the society as whites.