Socio-Political Activism in New Nigerian Drama: a Study of Niyi Osundare’s the State Visit and Nasiru Akanji’s the Rally

Student: FAVOUR CHIDINMA OBI (Project, 2025)
Department of English
Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State

Abstract

The study will examine activism in social political parlance of contemporary realities of Africa in broad context. The study also investigates the symbiotic relationship that exists between the playwright and his society, highlighting the ways by which the influence of one impinges on the other, and how they all turn weigh on the people and the development of the Nigerian society. The traditional role of an African writer is that he is the conscience of his society. He should serve as the record of the moral and experiences of his society and the voice of vision in his own time. Niyi Osundare has demonstrated his awareness of these in his play The State Visit. He portrays how the leadership of Yakeland rules the state with impunity sacking his ministers and aides the diverting resources meant for the development of agriculture and ignoring the vulnerable in the society. Apart from dilating on all these, we shall look at the messages the playwright tries to put across to Nigerians, particularly the need for the masses to be aware of their situation and the need for their resistance.

Keywords
sociopolitical activism nigerian drama osundares state visit nasiru akanjis rally
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