YORÙBÁ ỌMỌLÚWÀBÍ PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS IN FEMI OSOFISAN’S ESU AND THE VAGABOND MINSTRELS AND ANOTHER RAFT

AZEEZ, AKINWUNMI SESAN and TEMILADE, AFOLASADE OLATUNJI (2021) YORÙBÁ ỌMỌLÚWÀBÍ PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS IN FEMI OSOFISAN’S ESU AND THE VAGABOND MINSTRELS AND ANOTHER RAFT. UNIOSUN JOURNAL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES (UJOFOLS), 3 (1). pp. 1-27. ISSN 2714- 3406

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Abstract

Playwrights, like other literary writers, have been reflecting and refracting the events and happenings in their society. They do these through the characterisation and thematic concern of their texts. One of the recurring motif in most African drama is corruption, which is treated with commendable interest and vigour by the playwrights. Femi Osofisan, a Nigerian playwright, has made a commendable contributions to the discourse of corruption in drama with series of his plays. His Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels and Another Raft are selected for this paper because of their shared thematics in the reflection and refraction of corruption in Nigerian society. The two plays are interpreted with Ademola Dasylva’s Yorùbá ọmọlúwàbí philosophical hermeneutics. With the analysis of the plays, the findings reveal that there is no society that is free of corrupt practice. With the findings, the paper holds the view that humanity is at the crossroads of corruption because the just action of humans can also precipitate corruption. The conclusion of the paper is that concerted efforts should be made to reduce the spate of corruption in our society because it cannot be eradicated. Keywords: Femi Osofisan’s plays, Nigerian playwrights and motif of corruption, Sociology of literature, Yoruba concept of Ọmọlúwàbí, Nigerian Dramatic Literature

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Management
Depositing User:	Unnamed user with email [email protected]
Date Deposited:	03 Apr 2023 12:19
Last Modified:	03 Apr 2023 12:19
URI:	http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/2271

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