Political Corruption And Symbolism In Adichie Chiamanda Ngozi’s Half Of A Yellow Sun And Okey Ndibe’s Arrows Of Rain

Political Corruption And Symbolism In Adichie Chiamanda Ngozi’s Half Of A Yellow Sun And Okey Ndibe’s Arrows Of Rain

Abstract

This design work is on political corruption and symbolism. This design work brings out the loose practices by politicians and military autocrats. To also brings out the symbols used in the novels. Chapter one is an preface on political corruption in Nigeria and the way the military took over and ruled Nigeria. Chapter two is on the affiliated literature review, chapter three is on political corruption and symbolism in Adichie Chumamanda Ngozi Half of a unheroic Sun. Chapter four is on the political corruption and symbolism in Okey Ndibe’s Arrows of Rain this design work is the conclusion. This design exploration concludes that though the coming of the British to colonise us brought civilization and also divisions among the ethnical groups which led to war. War leads to destruction of lives and parcels, it should thus be avoided.

Chapter One

Preface

Political corruption is the use of power by government officers for illegitimate private gain. Abuse of government power for other purposes similar as suppression of political opponents and general police brutality is considered political corruption. utmost profitable political and social problems in under developed societies like Nigeria radiate from corruption. Some of these problems include lack of responsibility, diversion of public coffers to private power, different types of demarcation, race. Lack of capability, inefficiency etc.

There are numerous causes of political corruption similar as ineffective political processes, ineffective political backing, and poverty. Ethnical and religious difference.

A lot of secretiveness still pervades government document and this underlies the need for the passage of the freedom of information bill

presently before Nigeria ‟ s, alsolaw publicNationa participation in Government to mention afew.The pervasive loose practices have been criticized on the social masters. According to this view, the na confined any early influences in an ethical revolution.

Throughout the social period most Nigerians were struck in Ignorance and poverty.

The position of corruption raised serious alarm that attracted the concern of both Nigerians and transnational community which rated Nigeria as one of the most loose countries.

Although, the government embarked uponanti-corruption measures but weren’t unfeignedly and duly enforced similar that the anticipated ideal and thing weren’t achieved. The problem was rather exacerbated. Since also, corruption has continued to militate against public development. In Nigeria corruption is a problem that has to be embedded out. Owusi( 2002), still in his book, The Root Causes of Corruption in West Africa, was of the view that; Corruption is made up of opportunist manipulation or branches of being laws and regulation for advantages.

He emphasized that;

Our devilish desire for wealth, power prestige and high status and its desirous consumption of scarce, precious and prestigious import goods is no doubt one of the roads to corruption in the society ”.

Over the times, the country has seen its wealth withered with little to show in living conditions of the average people.

As with numerous other African nations, Nigeria was an artificial structure initiated by former social powers which had neglected to consider religious verbal and ethnical differences.

The causes of Nigeria Civil War were different although, in his bio, intelligencer Alex Mitchell blames involvement of the British, Dutch, French and Italian oil painting companies whose battles for the rich Nigerian oil painting fields started the Civil War and kept it going.

Nigerian ‟ s political problems also the British took over power, administered and abandoned government and people of Nigeria. The British directors didn’t make trouble to weld the country together and unite the heterogenous group of people. Though numerous technologies we’ve moment are due to their enlightenment.

Northern leaders still, sweat that independence would mean political and profitable domination by the further westernized elites in the south, preferred the perpetuation of British rule. As a condition for accepting independence, they demanded that the country continue to be divided into three regions with the North having a clearmajority.On January 15, 1966, major Kaduna Nzeogwu and other inferior

Army officers( substantially majors and captains) at generally suspected that the achievement had been initiated by the Igbo and for their own primary benefit, because of the race of those that were killed. The two major political leaders of the North, the Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and the Premier of the Northern region, Sir Ahmadu Bello was executed by major Nzeogwu. Also boggled was Sir Ahmadu Bello ‟ s woman . The achievement wasn’t only generally carried out in the Northern region,