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Publication Title MAN ENDANGERED SPECIE: A STUDY OF PROFESSOR TONY AFEJUKU’S A GARDEN OF MOODS

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Publisher Journal of Social Science and Public Policy Volume 3, March 2011

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2011-03-03

Abstract This paper is an attempt to explore Professor Tony Afejuku’s poetry: A Garden of Moods, as the poets conscious attempt to portray man’s earthly journey as an inevitable exercise in futility. It is my attempt to show how greatly incapacitated man is in a journey he is compelled to undertake. To quote Adolf Hitler (2007) “My whole life has been nothing but one long struggle, and all that it takes to keep on in a wasted journey: man on earth. This truth: the nothingness of life, Afejuku tries to explain, maintaining Richard M. Nixon’s (1993) postulation that “the truth should be brought out – no matter who was involved” (P. 176). The thrust, of this piece, therefore, is to show that man on earth is a gathering of dirt in a waste paper bag.

Publication Title ADOTSE AN ICON OF HOPE: A STUDY OF RICHARD MASAGBOR’SLABYRINTHS OF A BEAUTY

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Publisher Journal of Arts and Contemporary Society Volume 3, December 2011

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2011-12-12

Abstract This article is an attempt to show Masagbor’s exploration of “the vagaries of human life,” (Idegwu, 2009), and how Adotse for instance, is a correspondence between the form and meaning of the virtues which are needed in human life to over come, and win the battles of life. It is also an attempt to explore, and explain how people in power in the various realms of life create myths around their persons and office, to intimidate, and force their subject to remain cowed forever. This paper looks at the challenges the oppressed face, and shows that the possession of virtues such as courage, hope, the power to persist and remain focus or consistent are what the oppressed need to liberate themselves. Hence, the iconicity of Adotse, who personifies these virtues.

Publication Title African Short Story Writers and Intrapersonal Conflicts: A Critical Perspective on a Selected Short Story

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Publisher Sino-US English Teaching, June 2024, Vol. 21, No. 6, 270-279

Paper Link doi:10.17265/1539-8072/2024.6.002

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuma Idegwu

Year Published 2024-06-06

Abstract The article examines the concept of intrapersonal conflict, the ravaging wars within oneself, that which is truly deeper than indecisiveness, what is responsible for inner conflict, its origin, the consequences, and how to avoid it. It employs Dul Johnsons’ “In the Jaws of Love” in his Why Women Won’t Make It to Heaven. The theory for the investigation is sociological theory which articulates the inevitable relationship between literature and society. The inquiry unearths that an individuals’ attempt to satisfy the needs of one’s environment at the expense of sound reasoning, the individual’s inability to find a balance between the individual’s head and heart, and being religious are detrimental to one’s wellbeing. It creates intrapersonal conflict which is indeed destructive. The paper resolves that people should be able to tell themselves the truth, recognise and accept same, even if it comes from one with whom they disagree. It also explicates that people should not depend on religious and secular leader or people to take decisions for them, and that living in fear is devastating among other things

Publication Title MAN AND THE GEOMETRICAL PROGRESSION OF THE ENCUMBRANCE OF LIFE: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON J.P. CLARK-BEKEDEREMO’S ONCE AGAIN A CHILD, R.A. MASAGBOR’S SOLEMN CHANTS AND TONY AFEJUKU’S A GARDEN OF MOODS

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Publisher International Journal of Arts, Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies (JOLLS) Http://www.jolls.com.ng/v2/ Vol. 13 (3) August-September 2024

Paper Link http://www.jolls.com.ng/

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2024-09-09

Abstract Humans begin their journey on earth with a cry, an indication of anguish and the inevitability of pains that will bedevil the entire pilgrimage. Like it’s commencement, the moment of cessation of this life’s excruciating task could be likened to the marcable dance of a lizard’s tail when it is slashed off its parent’s body. The whole exercise could be best described as the timely visitation of Nigerian herdsmen at regular intervals on a community of harmless and defenseless humans. The thrust of this article, therefore, is to explore the geography of pains, articulating the conspiracy against man and its inevitability. This will be screened through J.P. Clark-Bekederemo’s Once Again a Child. R.A. Masagbor’s Solemn Chants and Tony Afejuku’s A Garden of Moods.

Publication Title FEMALE WRITERS, AS BUILDERS OF AFRICAN SOCIETY: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON SOME WORKS BY FEMALE WRITERS

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Publisher Dutsin-Ma Journal of English and Literature (DUJEL) Vol 9, No 1, 2024

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2024-01-01

Abstract In recent times, Female African Writers have been on the vanguard of the pursuit for an ideal family unit. The essence is to ensure that there is harmony in every home: for it is only then that the nation can develop. This article is therefore, an attempt to explore how the writers have tried to achieve their aspirations by exposing the evils that occur when young ones engage in premarital sexual relationship. The theory for the investigation is sociological theory which enucleates /explains the inevitable relationship between art and society and how art deliberately redefines a world that has detailed and sustains the one on course. This investigation discovers that in life everyone reaps whatever he/she sows. The inevitability of seed time and harvest time becomes the watch word of every living being. That whoever jilts a lover for selfish reasons for instance goes with a curse which shows later in life. Hence the need for good or proper parenting. It also stresses that importance of children, youths and adults living a Godly life. This concept will be screened through Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Things Around Our Neck Razinant T. Mohammed’s A love like a Woman’s and Other Stories and Sophia Obi Apoko’s Broken Pearls.

Publication Title ADOTSE AN ICON OF HOPE: A STUDY OF RICHARD MASAGBOR'S LABYRINTHS OF A BEAUTY

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Publisher Journal of the Nigeria Association for Semiotics Studies (JONASS)

Publication Authors Idegwu, Clement Chukwuka

Year Published 2012-06-10

Abstract This article is an attempt to show Masagbor's exploration of "the vagaries of human life," (Idegwu, 2009), and how Adotse, for instance, is a correspondence between the form and meaning of the virtues which are needed in human life to overcome and win the battles of life. It is also an attempt to explore, and explain how people in power in the various realms of life create myths around their persons and office, to intimidate, and force their subject to remain cowed forever. This paper looks at the challenges the oppressed face, and shows that the possession of virtues such as courage, hope, the power to persist and remain focused or consistent are what the oppressed need to liberate themselves. Hence, the iconicity of Adotse, who personifies these virtues.

Publication Title AFRICAN LEADERS AND THEIR BETRAYAL OF THE PEOPLE: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON NGUGI’S DEVIL ON THE CROSS AND ADICHE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS

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Publisher The Criterion – An International Journal in English

Publication Authors Professor Jude Aigbe Agho & Dr. Idegwu, Clement Chukwuka

Year Published 2015-12-10

Abstract Over five decades, African continent has been bedevilled by bad leadership. It has been stated in many foras that the history of the continent is nothing but the muted index of war The main reason for the backwardness is a treacherous leadership which is in geometrical progression. This paper is therefore, an attempt to explore the treacherous nature of African leaders which accounts for the vast majority of the people living in abject poverty today. It also explicates the context in which African novelists write and their sensitivity to the issues that affect the masses of the continent. In this discourse we try to show how Ngugi wa Thong'o and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, our primary sources, x-ray the reality of the Africa situation and proffer solutions which will help solve the perennial problems that have bedeviled the continent for over five decades now.

Publication Title AFRICAN SHORT STORY WRITERS AND HOMOSEXUALITY - A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON SELECTED SHORT STORIES

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Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu (Ph.D.)

Year Published 2022-07-10

Abstract Homosexuality as a thematic construct is a recent development in African literature, especially in the short story genre. It is worthy of academic scrutiny or intentness now, because if the younger generation is left in the dark, it will portend great evil for the continent. Though Wole Soyinka (1992) in The Interpreters talks about gayness while Jude Dibia (2005) in Walking with Shadows more than three decades after, discusses same, the theme of homosexuality is uncommon in African literature. The short story, a popular genre, is yet to explores homosexuality in African short stories. The focus is on its emergence, rape of the victims, the mindsets of the victims, its effects, the African would view and how to redeem the society from the cankerworm that is gradually eating deep into the fabric of the society. The researcher carries out a queer theory analysis of characters of the selected short stories in order to appreciate their thought process and communities' perception of the topic. The concept will be analysed using Ernest Emenyonu's "What the Babysitter Had in common with My Bishop," Halima Aliyu's "Solid" and Chimamanda Ngozi Adiechie's" On Monday Last Week," "The Shivering" and "Jumping Monkey Hills." The paper recommends that though writers of homosexuality exist, their arts should be geared towards condemning the act in its entirety, sensitizing the people on the need for victims to report their abusers to the law enforcement agencies and civil right agencies who will fight their cause. The abused or victims should also be made to know that gifts from their abusers are to silent them and make them victims forever, hence, they should not be fooled. Novelist should take a firm stand on the abnormality of homosexuality, its being a taboo, and the beauty of the victims reporting to the appropriate quarters in order to nip the act in the bud, receiving the desired counseling and be reintegrated into normal life.

Publication Title AFRICAN SHORT STORY WRITERS AND NATION BUILDING - A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK AND DEJI RAHMAN’S CIRCUS OF THE ABSURD

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Publisher Humanities Today

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu, Ph.D

Year Published 2020-05-03

Abstract Prose fiction, especially the short story genre has been an indispensable tool for governance, legislating laws for the building of an ideal society, applauding law abiding citizens and condemning the actions of lawbreakers or offenders in a manner that humans daily strive to be cultivated. African short story writers like their counter parts in other climes create vivid images of socio-political, economic and religious happenings in their society. Their realistic portrayal of these things creates the desired burden in the citizens' lives that makes them strive to achieve the ideal. There is usually a sense of unrest and the growing disgust towards the unideal. Their thematic constructs are aimed at inundating the people with the state of things, how to overcome the challenges confronting the nation and build a nation everyone will be proud of. The idea of African short story writers as nation builders will be screened through Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck and Deji Rahman's Circus of the Absurd.

Publication Title LITERATURE: AN IDEAL INSTRUMENT FOR RECONSTRUCTING NIGERIA: A FAILED SOCIETY

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Publisher Multidisciplinary Journal of Research Development (MULJORED)

Publication Authors Idegwu, Clement Chukwuka

Year Published 2007-12-25

Abstract This discourse is an exposition of the Nigerian Nation as a failed society characterized by the wanton wastage of human life and property. The fact that the degree of destruction in all spheres of life is alarming calls for an urgent reordering of the nation. This article, therefore, tries to show how Literature which is a reflection of the sensibility of a people at a particular time and place could serve as an ideal instrument for reconstructing Nigeria: a failed society, in order for her to nobly stand towering as the giant of African in the comity of nations.

Publication Title MAN AND HIS QUEST - A STUDY OF SAM UKALA_S AKPAKALAND AND BREAK A BOIL

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Publisher Kebbi Journal of Language and Literature (KJLL)

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu Ph.D

Year Published 2021-03-10

Abstract This article attempts to explicate the need for self-discipline in one's thoughts and actions because ones' fulfillment in life and the beauty of healthy living depend on it. It has been observed that human desires and the quests for the realisation of such are done without restrains. This paper, therefore, explores the danger of unrestrained desires with a view to calling the people to order and making them see the need to make integrity their watch word. This change in human consciousness will do the nation great good. This concept is explored using Sam Ukala's Akpaka land and Break a Boil.

Publication Title MODERN AFRICAN NOVEL: THE BIBLICAL LAMENTATION OF A CONTINENT: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON AYI KWEI ARMAH’S THE BEAUTIFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN

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Publisher Journal of Humanities & Social Science (JHSS)

Publication Authors Dr Clement Chukwuka Idegwu & Mercy Agholor (Mrs.)

Year Published 2017-06-10

Abstract The paper is my genuine attempt to demonstrate that there is a great similitude between the biblical lamentation of the prophets of old and our literary prophets of the now in Africa. The Isaiah's, the Jeremiah's, the Elijah's and the Micah's of the Christian creed, and the Ayi Kwei Armah's, the Ngugi wa Thiong'o's, the Clement C. Idegwu, the Richard Mosagbor's and the Olu Obafemi of our time are prophets whose call to repentance are. and will remain irresistible for as the biblical prophets changed their societies through their consistent and persistent call to repentance so their archetypes in modern Africa are doing and will continue to do until the continent is devoid of all forms of evil. This is why Ayi Kwei Armah's unrelenting effort in his condemnation of the unimaginable degree of corruption in Africa is worth our commendation. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, his very first novel in his prophetic ministry is our anchor.

Publication Title SMOKE AND STENCH OF OIL, OUR ETERNAL PAINS: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON SOPHIA OBI’S TEARS IN A BASKET

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Publisher African Scholar Journal of Humanities and Social Science (AJHSS)

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu Ph.D & Daniel Idegwu

Year Published 2017-03-10

Abstract Globalization which is of inestimable value has become something no writer worth his or her salt will ever ignore. Currently, Africa writers like their counterparts in developing or third world countries have placed more premium on freedom and justice, ecology and environmental issues, individual human rights and the unending search for the meaning and place of self in a grievously fragmented and tortuous socio-political and bastardized world. A new and inevitable sensibility seems to have engulfed the entire world: developed, developing and underdeveloped countries of the world. There is a new wave of revival aimed at putting an end to political corruption, class and economic marginalization, deliberate attempts to underdeveloped certain regions despite their monumental contributions to the economic growth of the nation among other things. These are issues which when over looked could lead to an extreme disruption of world peace and harmony. Nigerian writers in tune with the prevailing concern of literary artists all over the world are devoting their energy, especially in recent times to the exploration, of the basic problems confronting humanity, anywhere in the globalized village called world. This article, therefore, is our genuine attempt to show that Nigerian writers since 1980 have been parts of the world writers collective projection of images in words and deeds deliberately out to reveal our concept of a decent and harmonious society free from all forms of evils and the chaos of life. It is intended to make Nigerian leaders to remember that if the goose that lays the golden egg is destroyed, even the exploiters will be destroyed. Above all it is intended to make our leaders act right in order for the led to follow suit. Sophia Obi's Tears in a Basket, a journey in poetry will serve as our major reference point.

Publication Title THE AFRICAN NOVEL AND THE HEALING OF A NEO-COLONIAL CRAZE: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON CHINUA ACHEBE’S ANTHILLS OF THE SVANNAH AND AYI KWEI ARMAH’S OSIRIS RISING

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Publisher Humanities Today

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu Ph.D

Year Published 2017-09-10

Abstract Individuals and communities have been battered and left in pains by the very few who form themselves into a cabal. These very few for decade not only oppress the majority but ensure that every act of resistance is met with great force. Such a person is brutally murdered or the psyche maimed forever. Chinua Achebe and Ayi Kwei Armah in Anthills of the Savannah and Osiris Rising respectively explore this situation in Africa, showing how much harm has been done, the African novels and its attempts to heal the wounds, sensitise and conscientise the masses towards organized revolts and the possibility of an ideal African State. These writers also portray that the likes of Asar in Armah's Osiris Rising will live and reorder the society for good if S.S. boss, the perpetrators of the great injustices are killed the moment they are identified. This will enable the emerging beautiful ones sent by God to heal the people and land fulfil their dreams. This paper argues that Achebe and Armah and Armah who represent African novelists are committed novelists who implore their art for the healing of neo-colonial craze.

Publication Title THE MODERN AFRICAN NOVEL AN INESTIMABLE ARBITER: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS

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Publisher Asian Academic Research Journal of Social Science & Humanities (AARJSH)

Publication Authors Dr. Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2015-06-10

Abstract Christianity and feminism lave become inescapable realities of the moment that writers all over the world are highly concerned about the application of these concepts, that abuses, the biting effect of such on the "fragile peace" that exist between humans and what the ideals ought to be it peaceful co-existence is out swatch word. The situation is much more complex in Africa where these two concepts are alien to the people. The greater complexity lies the fact these current waves. Christianity and Feminism have a subtle way of affecting the human psyche that before they comprehend what they are in for they are highly engrossed that they, daily look back in anger for ever getting involved. The author will discuss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple in the Iight of the above, showcasing how the Afican novel mediates as a combatant in the crisis created by this strange marriage in Africa.

Publication Title THE POET A SOCIAL REFORMER: A CRITICAL PERSPECCTIVE ON AKACHI ADIMORA EZEIGBO’S HEART SONGS AND WAITING FOR DAWN

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Publisher DUSTIN-MA Journal of English and Literature (DUJEL)

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2021-08-10

Abstract A critical look at oneself and environment shows that so many things are done wrongly, People, both in governance, and other spheres of life, behave in a way that leaves much to be desired. These behaviours mortgage the people's commonwealth. Hence the need for reforms engineered by poets which entails giving up bad habits or improving on ones behaviour either as an individual or a nation. Unfortunately, this can only take place when the people are aware of whom they are, the environment's beauty or ugliness, appreciate the need for a change for the better, and going headlong to act rightly. Poets create vivid images of their society which serve as a forum for sober reflection, and critical self and national evaluation. This paper examines this concept of the poet, a social reformer, exploring Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo's collections of poetry: Heart Songs and Waiting for Dawn as anchor texts.

Publication Title UNOKA, AN IDEAL AFRICAN LIFE BASTARDISED AND DESTROYED BY WESTERN CAPITALISM: A STUDY OF CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALLL APART

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Publisher Nigerian Academic Forum – A multidisciplinary Journal

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2008-11-10

Abstract This proposal provides and offers for the study of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, posting Unoka, Okonkwo’s father life and world view as an ideal African mind-set where every individual specializes on his arts contributing to the central pool, the joy that stimulates and sustains the oneness for which Africans are well known. Unoka's life is devoid of western capitalism which had destroyed the African essence, promoting undue quest for money and western ideals thereby, destroying the communal life style for which African had been the envy of many, It is this note that will analyze Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Publication Title No to Injustice: A Critical Appraisal of Three Nigerian Poets

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Publisher Veritas Journal of Humanities (EJOH)

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2021-12-27

Abstract This paper argues that poets are the conscience of the nation and thus use their poems to vilify leaders and those who oppress people. Employing the sociological approach to the study of literature, the paper examines the use of poetry to equip the people to say no to injustice in whatever form it occurs. The paper analyses the poetry of Odia Ofeimum, Tayo Olatioye and Remi Raji. These Nigerian poets, through their poems, empower Nigerians to say no to injustice in order to create an ideal society where servant-leaders govern the affairs of the people for the good of all. Through their poetry, Nigerians are called to be courageous to say no to injustice for it is only in this state of being that leaders, at whatever level, will render selfless services, and improve the plight of the common man. This study, therefore, explicates the beauty of poetry in helping man to redeem himself and his society by being courageous enough to resist all forms of injustice.

Publication Title Restructuring of Nigeria’s Mentality: An Analysis of Ahmed Yerima’s Atika’s Well and Shehu Sani’s When Clerics Kill

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Publisher Veritas Journal of Humanities (EJOH)

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2021-12-27

Abstract Right from the First Republic, Nigeria has been faced with the dearth of responsible governance, and the quest for strategies that will ensure the delivering of good managers who will utilise the huge human and natural resources for the development of the citizens and the country. This has led to complaints and calls for restructuring. Various geographical zones talk about restructuring, resource control, autonomy, referendum and the likes. Good as these calls for change are, none or perhaps very few seem to have pondered on the fact that the six geopolitical zones which constitute Nigeria have at one time or the other produced people who held positions of leadership in governance. This paper, therefore, examines Yerima’s Atika’s Well and Sani’s When Clerics Kill to demonstrate the need for sound character development of all political office holders who daily manage the affairs of the nation. Through the lens of sociological criticism, this paper explores the relationship between literature and society in the analysis of Yerima’s Atika’s Well and Sani’s When Clerics Kill. The findings of this study show that Yerima and Sani fictionalize the socio-political, religious and economic issues of Nigeria among other things and lay bare the fact that political office holders in Nigeria since independence have been very corrupt and selfish. Hence, the paper advocates mental restructuring should precede any other form of restructuring the people may carry out if meaningful development is to take place.

Publication Title Restructuring of Nigeria’s Mentality: An Analysis of Ahmed Yerima’s Atika’s Well and Shehu Sani’s When Clerics Kill

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Publisher Veritas Journal of Humanities (EJOH)

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2021-12-27

Publication Title Restructuring of Nigeria’s Mentality: An Analysis of Ahmed Yerima’s Atika’s Well and Shehu Sani’s When Clerics Kill

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Publisher Veritas Journal of Humanities (EJOH)

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2021-12-27

Publication Title Oil, the Perennial Ache of the Niger Delta: A Critical Perspective on Two Collections of Poems

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Publisher CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics (C-JEL)

Paper Link https://doi.org/10.56907/gsox7rm1

Publication Authors Clement Idegwu

Year Published 2023-06-10

Abstract This paper examines the mutuality between human beings and their ecologies and the inevitable role of literature in critiquing these relationships, highlighting the beauty and the errors there in and what needs to be done to better the human world. This paper investigates the current state of the nation, Nigeria, and acquaints the people with the view that ecologies are over exploited by the Nigeria ruling class, in connivance with the multinational oil companies, leaving behind monumental and devastating ecological imprints on the landscape, fauna and flora. It investigates the poets’ intervention, the governments nonchalant attitude towards the peoples’ predicaments, the geometrical progression of poverty in the land and the way out of the dilemma. Using Ecocriticism, a trans-disciplinary approach, which scrutinises the relationship between biological sciences and literary imaginative works, the paper analyses the Ibiwari Ikiriko’s Oily Tears of the Delta and Sophia Obi’s Tears in a Basket which demonstrate the collective silence towards the exploitation of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. This paper highlights, from the ecological perspective the pains of the Niger Delta region resulting from the environmental degradation, corruption and the criminality of the Nigerian government and the multinational oil companies. It also finds that there is a deliberate debasing of the nations landscape and calls on the government to do the needful. The paper concludes that there is a deliberate attempt to reawakening the peoples to rise up to the challenges of the moment in view of government insensitivity.

Publication Title The Playwright and Conflict Resolution: A Critical Perspective on Ahmed Yerima’s The Angel

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Publisher CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics (C-JEL)

Paper Link http://dx.doi.org/10.56907/g6ntm5fv

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2022-10-10

Abstract This article examines the concept of conflict, its causes, effects and how to minimize it in human relationship. It employs Ahmed Yerima’s The Angel as its anchor or illustrative text. The theory for the investigation is sociological theory which explicates the relationship between art and society and how art redefines a world that has lost its track. The inquiry discovers that selfishness, greed, undue and unnecessary or unhealthy competition create dissension among siblings and members of the society. These things create discord which undermines family bloodline, and goes on to destroy everyone. It also shows that, the survivors, if there be any, concentrate, on how to maximize the moment for selfish gains rather than brooding over the monumental waste of lives, among other things. This indeed is disheartening. This paper resolves or establishes that, though conflict is prevalent in all societies, siblings and human beings in general could minimize it to the barest minimum. This is possible if they refuse to allow greed and avarices that usually becloud human sense of reasoning to overwhelm them. This must be articulated in families, homes and in childhood in order to avoid children growing up with the intent for self–aggrandizement which remains inimical to our collective wellbeing.

Publication Title DRAMA AS A SOCIAL RE-ENGINEERING: A STUDY OF OLU OBAFEMI’S NAIRA HAS NO GENDER

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Publisher Sino-US English Teaching

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2010-12-07

Abstract This paper is an attempt to show that in a failed nation like Nigeria, literature which is an exploration of human life is an indispensible or inevitable tool for changing the social order. This is because the literature of a people is directed and shaped by the socio-economic and political order of the society. Writers all over the world daily weave their tales around the various events that have become their countries second self. The tyranny of the moment is great. Perhaps none in human history could be equated with the present calamity that has befallen humanity. The "nowness" of the content and form of the works of our literary artists make literature not only an instrument of change but a constant and persistent tool for an inevitable re-ordering of the psyche of a people whose mindsets have been greatly damaged (Idegwu, 2009). Happenings in socio-political spheres such as disinheriting the fatherless, political and religious killings and tyranny of all sorts usually impose great burden on the literary artist. The committed dramatist finds it difficult to keep silent in the face of such tyrannical acts. That these socio-political occurrences are clays in the hands of the dramatist makes drama a very powerful learning medium for shaping the young ones in preparation for their leadership roles, as change-makers. This is why drama is a social re-engineering therapy, rebranding the people's mind-set, making them always develop the tendency to do good (UNESCO, 2002). And what Olu Obafemi tries to do in Naira Has No Gender is condemning the act of looting push treasury by public officers, and life sapping societal weddings among other things.

Publication Title Man, a fly in a spider's web: A study of Olu Obafemi's Wheels

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Publisher US-China Foreign Language

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2010-11-22

Abstract This paper is an attempt to show Olu Obafemi's exploration of "the vagaries of human life" as Idegwu (2009) would put it. Obafemi's thrust is the meaninglessness of life, a world where Nigerian children are faced with avoidable social injustice. Olu Obafemi presents Nigerian children "as a people in search of social harmony and transformation in a world torn apart by inequality and social injustice". Like Thomas Hardy, Olu Obafemi presents man as a fly trapped in a spider's web projecting the absurdist or existentialist posture of life where a man's earthly journey remains an exercise in futility.

Publication Title Women and the Dearth of Wisdom: A Critical Perspective on Flora Nwapa's Efuru and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus

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Publisher OJA Journal of Arts And Culture

Publication Authors Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Year Published 2020-06-08

Abstract The need for one to relate and relate well with an opposite sex either for procreation or a deliberate attempt to avoid loneliness is as inevitable as breathe to life. Right from the Adams, the inescapable nature of the union between man and woman and the need to strew the thread of harmony in such a union have been the object of critical exploration by literary artists as well as those in various fields of human endeavour. Due to its unavoidable nature, deliberate efforts have been made and the act is ongoing to explore, explicate and postulate how a man and woman can harmoniously live as husband and wife, procreating super human beings who will continually leave the world a better place than they met it. There have been hues and cries about mistreatment, subjugation and abuse from both sides of the divide, though more from the female angle. Unfortunately, none did ponder on how to ensure a peaceful co-existence as none of the sexes can fulfill his or her dreams without an atom of relationship with the other. The thrust of this paper therefore, is an exploration of this ancient conflict whose resolution is the required intervention for women to have their joy filled to capacity rather than the feminist tendencies that call for single parenthood and other forms of prescriptions that permit the termination of husbands' life for the day a woman terminates her husband's life, hers is terminated. The analysis will be screened through Flora Nwapa's Efuru and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus

Dr. IDEGWU CLEMENT CHUKWUKA

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