Social Consciousness of the Niger-Delta people in Tanure Ojaide's The Activist
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2016-07-06
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Department of English, Nasarawa State University, Keffi
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The paper examines the role of writers as agents for social change. They use their works to raise social consciousness on issues call for change. Consequently ' Social Consciousness of the Niger-Delta people in Tanure Ojaide's The Activist' looks at how Tanure Ojaide uses his work to depict the ethnic marginalization of the people Niger-Delta by bad leaders and multinational oil companies and their response in such situation. The researcher uses the Marxist approach in the analysis of the paper.
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