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Volume 38: Issue 2
War, violence and language in Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy
Author:
Chijioke Uwasomba Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

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Pages:
487–498
Online Publication Date:
06 Jan 2011
Publication Date:
01 Dec 2011
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-010-0085-2
Keywords:
Dukana; Nigerian pidgin; Civil war; Sozaboy; Refugee camp
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Abstract  

This essay is based on Ken Saro-Wiwa’s novel, titled Sozaboy. Apart from using this novel to interpret and locate the history and politics of Nigeria within a particular period, the essay tried to look at the 1967–1970 Nigeria’s civil war as fictionalized by Ken Saro-Wiwa, the nature of the language and implications on the English language in Nigeria. It also attempted an understanding of the moral and political consequences of war on humanity in general and the special effect of the Nigerian civil war on the minority areas within the Biafran enclave in particular as epitomized by Dukana, the setting of Sozaboy. The essay concluded that the novel itself was a bold attempt at experimentation with language, considering the fact that it was written in what the author himself described as “rotten” English.

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