The Consequences Of The Loss Of Predictable Political Power In A Community

The Consequences Of The Loss Of Predictable Political Power In A Community

Chapter One

Preface

Nigeria’s political problems sprang from the debonair manner in which the British took over, administered, and abandoned the government and people of Nigeria. British directors didn’t make an trouble to weld the country together and unite the miscellaneous groups of people. Though, numerous effects we’ve moment is due to their enlightenment, they still left us hanging. According to Adewele Ademoyega in his book Why We Struck 1981, he said that when the British came, they forcefully rubber- stamped the political state of the ethnical groups of Nigeria, and maintained that status quo until the left wing. According to him upon their departure nearly a hundred times latterly, the people proceeded fighting for their political rights.

When the British came to Nigeria as an Homeric nation to take over the rulership of the country from 1861( with the capitulation of Lagos), they met the people of the south completely free, only observing and regulating their own monarchies and institutions( Adewele Ademoyega Why We Struck). Chinua Achebe in his work or new effects Fall piecemeal, 1958, tries to portray the life Africans lived before and during the appearance of the Europeans in Nigeria.

effects Fall piecemeal tells the woeful story of the rise and fall of Okonkwo and the inversely woeful story of the decomposition of Igbo culture, represented by the agricultural society of Umofia, under the grim encroachments of British Christian imperialism.

For Achebe, Mister Johnson represents the worst kind of depiction of Africans by Europeans. To him, the depiction was all the more disheartening because John Cary was working hard to achieve and accurate definition, unlike numerous British authors during the Homeric social period who designedly, frequently cynically, exploited hackneyed of Africans and African society. It was precisely because John Cary was a liberal- inclined and sympathetic pen, as well as a social director that Achebe felt the record had to be set straight. Achebe’s purpose also is to write about and for his own people. His first novels form a continuum over one hundred times of Igbo civilization. The Europeans haven’t yet entered Umuofia, the setting of the first novel, when effects Fall piecemeal beings. When the novel ends social rule has been established. His other novels talk about the different changes that took place before independence and after it.

The British governed Nigerian laterally through their traditional autocrats, as a result, the true leader of the millions incapacitated and held down. Just because Africans were given authority to rule over her own people, they saw it as a means to maltreat those that have wronged them, wring from those that have further than them and vend his/ her own family and family for favours from the superior leaders – The British.( Adewele Ademoyega Why We Struck).

These conduct by the original and foreign leaders made the people to sort for independence. numerous of them weren’t allowing straight any more. numerous people now saw the need to transfer their faults to others using others as an reason. The present leader condemn the social masters and fore runners for- independence for their conduct for not doing what’s anticipated of them well and also for the embezzlement and robbery of public finances. They claim that the social masters tutored them to do so. The political elites in other to come rich and influencial in the society, steal and condemn it on the frugality and leaders. No bone takes responsibility for his own crime and faults.

Between the politicians and the service they condemn one another for a bad government no bone agrees that the other is better than himself. In the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, people do all type of effects just to steal from the petroleum companies they believe that it’s their own right and bunkering which is a common business there isn’t stealing. That’s why Tanure Ojaide uses his new The Activist to enlighten the people of what’s passing in the Niger Delta areas. He says those that claim to be knowledgeable in the society are the Chief culprits sabotaging one another. Everybody in the country is in one way or the other suffering from the damages political corruption brought, we’re psychosocial disordered.

Kole Omotoso in his inventions focuses on relating the problems in Nigerian society and proposing result. He lived his nonage and nonage, participating the nationalist dreams of peace, progress, and substance, as an adult and as a pen, he was forced to watch the methodical promptness of these dreams after independence for decades after freedom from social rule, Nigeria was cursed by civil strife, including a civil war( 1967 – 1970) and ceaseless military accomplishments d’etat. These events, together with undemocratic rule political jugglery and regulatory cynicism redounded in a steady decline in the quality of life in a nation that, because it’s the most vibrant black nation on earth is frequently looked upon as representative of the black race. Omotoso tries to use fabrication to talk about the decay and chaos in the society but he tries to make it less real like Armah did in his The Beautyful Bones aren’t yet Born.

Description Of Terms

Political corruption is the use of enacted powers 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 also considered political corruption.

Forms of corruption vary, it include bribery, highway robbery, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft and embezzlement. While corruption may grease felonious enterprises similar as medicine trafficking, plutocrat laundering and trafficking, it isn’t confined to these conditioning. While political corruption is an illegal abuse of power, psychosocial complaint is the internal response one gets from it.

Psychosocial complaint is a internal illness caused or told by maladjusted cognitive and behavioural processes.

Statement of the Problem

Due to the political absolutism and the high rate of starvation and poverty in the country, numerous of the people are suffering from problems caused by the numerous ways they’re treated and controlled.

Their manner of thinking have been blurred with the idea that if they steal or kill to survive, it isn’t a crime because their leader are also stealers who maraud the public treasure and put is in their foreign accounts.

Again due to this, the citizens are psychosocially disordered and their minds loose. The crucial problem is the government. Because of the loose nature of the society, the government sells her pride and glory to foreign companies and enterprise. This people now treat the natural occupants of the areas where the companies are located like creatures without quality. illustration is the Niger Delta area of Nigeria which is the oil painting producing state.

The major problem is between the people and her government. Both are psychologically and socially sick. The pain of poverty and starvation in abundant plutocrat have destroyed the peoples mind that they no longer suppose or reason straight.

Aim and objects

The objects of this exploration are;

To identify the problems caused by political corruption and

To give suggestion to the forestallment of political corruption and psychosocial complaint and find a way to exclude it fully from the society in general.

· Significance of the study

Political corruption and psychosocial complaint using The Activist by Tanure Ojaide and Arrow of Rain by Oke Ndibe, will serve as a good material to pupil’s experimenters.

This work will show how the government and the citizens and foreign companies helped in the corruption of the society and her terrain and how the act of corruption has disordered everything.

Compass Of Research

This design is confined to the study of the political corruption and psychosocial complaint, using Tanure Ojaide’s The Activist and Okey Ndibe’s Arrow of Rain and other applicable erudite work of some other Nigerian and African prose pens and narrative on corruption.

The exploration is divided into five chapters, chapter one correspond of the preface, description of term, statement of the problem, aims and objects, significance of the study, compass of exploration and exploration methodology. Chapter two is the review of affiliated literature, chapter three is textual analysis of the new The Activist by Tanure Ojaide, Chapter four is textual analysis of the new Arrows of Rain Arrow of Rain by Okey Ndibe and chapter five is the summary and conclusion.

Exploration Methodology

The main source of this exploration work is textual analysis of The main source of this exploration work is textual analysis of The Activist by Tanue Ojaide and Arrow of Rain by Okey Ndibe.

The secondary accoutrements are from the library, textbooks, magazine and some workshop on African prose pens.