A REFLECTION OF MILITARY INTERVENTION IN THE NIGERIAN PROSE GENRE: A SOCIOPOLITICAL ANALYSIS OF ENOCH AJUNWA’S UNKNOWN DESTINATION

Abstract

One major problem facing the African literature which Nigeria is one is that of leadership. The level of development in Nigeria has made it easy for the military to intervene in the government more than the civilians and other sectors of the society. The intervention results in all manner of negative practices which are detrimental to the common masses as it is hallmarked in corruption and other social vices. The novel more than any other genre in Nigerian literature has being at the forefront of projecting the vices in the Nigerian society and that is why a novelist, Enoch Ajunwa, whose novel is used to analyze the problem of military intervention in the Nigerian prose takes a bitter and satirical look at the problem of corruption, with the hope that the end will be disastrous for the nation if this problem is not nipped at the bud.