ABIOYE, G.A and ADESANMI, M.A and OLATUNJI, T.A (2017) CORRUPTION CULTURE AND RETROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT IN SELECTED PLAYS OF OLU OBAFEMI. In: 11TH ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, NOVEMBER 28TH - 30TH , 2017, THE FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, ILARO.
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Abstract
This paper focuses on the portrayal of the culture of corruption which has led to backward development in Nigeria as depicted in Olu Obafemi’s Scapegoats and Sacred Cows (2003) and The New Dawn (2015). This work employs desk- research method through textual analysis of Olu Obafemi’s Scapegoats and Sacred Cows. With patriotic zeal, academic candour and creative ingenuity, the writer 2 dramatically draws attention to the obvious and disguised all-pervasive high level corruption in all the fabrics of the society such as nepotism, embezzlement, advance-fee fraud and ineptitude with the concomitant result of retrogressive development evident in unemployment, lack of patriotism and social amenities like water, electricity, housing, health facilities, poor transportation systems, inflation, poverty, hunger, deprivation, weak economy and weakening power of the nation’s currency as well as gross insecurity which has led to the development of a new economic culture of flourishing kidnapping trade, inter alia. With insight from age-long stylistic approach to literary studies, this paper establishes the fact that the writer uses literary devices such as symbolism, allusion, satire, good diction and several appropriate figures of speech such as euphemism, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification and alliteration to stylistically portray the unfortunate gradual entrenchment of corruption culture with its negative effects of retrogression in Nigeria. This paper concludes that Olu Obafemi has ingenuously condemned the corruption culture and its effects of retrogressive development and pervasive insecurity with the use of characters and other literary devices that ultimately and optimistically demand a positive change in the land.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Management |
| Depositing User: | Miss Ayomikun Ogunbadejo |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2020 09:55 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2020 09:55 |
| URI: | http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/578 |
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