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Title
Drama and the Niger Delta Challenges in Select Nigerian Plays |
Full text
http://dspace.unijos.edu.ng/handle/10485/2222 |
Date
2011 |
Author(s)
Embu, Reuben |
Abstract
Addressing the Niger Delta crises and challenges through drama is only one aspect of the various spheres of academic search for a lasting solution to the problems mostly carried out by the youths. They are mostly used by godfathers - those who benefit from illicit dealings in the oil business. The youths who are used sometimes as scapegoats end up losing their lives and not given any opportunity to educate and enhance their well being. Some of them are unde-aged and abused in the process, thus changing the worldview of such a child. The issues to be addressed in the paper include the vandalisation of oil pipelines and oil bunkering by saboteurs, poverty, assertion of fundamental human rights, leadership ineptitude, kidnapping or hostage taking, amnesty and rehahilitation 0/ militants. Nigerian dramatists have reacted d~[ferently to the Niger ,Delta situation in their works. For the purpose of this paper, three plays would he used as paradigm: Hard Ground by Ahmed Yerima, All for Oil and The Wives Revolt by J.P. Clark-Bekederemo. The environment is being focused here because for any meaningful development to take place, the environment must be secure and peaceful. The desecration of physical environment as well as human and lack of infrastructural development constitute lethal points of conflict. The paper will give a brief history of the Niger Delta and oil exploration, its effect on the people, environment and possible solutions to mitigate future occurrences. |
Subject(s)
Drama |
Language
en |
Publisher
Thr Society of Nigeria Theatre Artistes |
Relation
Volume 11;Number 1 |
Type of publication
Article |
Identifier
Nigerian Theatre Journal Vol. 11 No. 1 2011; 0189 - 9562 |
Repository
Jos - University of Jos
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