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.
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- Covenant Polytechnic, Aba, Abia State 1
- Covenant University, Canaan Land, Ota, Ogun State 4
- Crawford University of Apostolic Faith Mission Faith City, Igbesa, Ogun State 2
- Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State 1
- Cross Rivers University of Technology, Calabar, Cross Rivers State 142
- Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State 11
- Delta State Polytechnic, Otefe, Delta State 13
- Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State 139
- Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State 17
- Edo University, Iyamho, Edo State 10