Social Consciousness of the Niger-Delta people in Tanure Ojaide's The Activist
| dc.contributor.author | Daniel, Philip Moles | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-12T10:48:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-12T10:48:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-07-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
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| dc.identifier.uri | https://keffi.nsuk.edu.ng/handle/20.500.14448/3681 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of English, Nasarawa State University, Keffi | en_US |
| dc.title | Social Consciousness of the Niger-Delta people in Tanure Ojaide's The Activist | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |