Vultures and Candles as Metaphors of Leadership Failures in Emeka Nwabueze's A Parliament of Vultures and Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu's The Candles
Poor leadership has unarguably been recognized as a major national question around which many socioeconomic and political problems revolve in Nigeria. It has led to decadence and a squandermania mentality which breeds all sort of vices, mass poverty, absent and decaying infrastructure, kidnapping, a...
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ph-ateneo-arc.kk-18602024-12-19T03:42:11Z Vultures and Candles as Metaphors of Leadership Failures in Emeka Nwabueze's A Parliament of Vultures and Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu's The Candles Aniago, Emeka Eze, Norbert Oyibo Okoye-Ugwu, Stella Joe, Divine Sheriff Poor leadership has unarguably been recognized as a major national question around which many socioeconomic and political problems revolve in Nigeria. It has led to decadence and a squandermania mentality which breeds all sort of vices, mass poverty, absent and decaying infrastructure, kidnapping, agitations, banditry, and all kinds of insurgency. Playwrights, like other social scientists, have continued to interrogate this ugly phenomenon, which make socioeconomic and political development a will-o’-the-wisp in the country. This paper attempts to examine Emeka Nwabueze’s A Parliament of Vultures and Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu’s The Candles, especially as they deploy the vulture and the candle, respectively, as metaphors to elucidate the question of leadership failure in the unstable and politically explosive minefield that is Nigeria. The study adopts Clifford Geertz’s thick description approach to interpretation as its methodology. The researchers discovered that self-aggrandizement, incompetence, “fire- brigade approach,” poor institutions, lack of meritocracy, blackmail, and violence were the social realities that encumber the flowering of good governance in the country. 2024-12-19T06:06:22Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss36/5 info:doi/10.13185/1656-152x.1860 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1860/viewcontent/KK_2036_2C_202021_205_20Regular_20Section_20__20Aniago_2C_20Eze_2C_20Ugwu_2C_20Jose.pdf Kritika Kultura Archīum Ateneo corruption democracy military politics socioeconomic squandermania thick description |
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Poor leadership has unarguably been recognized as a major national question around which many socioeconomic and political problems revolve in Nigeria. It has led to decadence and a squandermania mentality which breeds all sort of vices, mass poverty, absent and decaying infrastructure, kidnapping, agitations, banditry, and all kinds of insurgency. Playwrights, like other social scientists, have continued to interrogate this ugly phenomenon, which make socioeconomic and political development a will-o’-the-wisp in the country. This paper attempts to examine Emeka Nwabueze’s A Parliament of Vultures and Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu’s The Candles, especially as they deploy the vulture and the candle, respectively, as metaphors to elucidate the question of leadership failure in the unstable and politically explosive minefield that is Nigeria. The study adopts Clifford Geertz’s thick description approach to interpretation as its methodology. The researchers discovered that self-aggrandizement, incompetence, “fire- brigade approach,” poor institutions, lack of meritocracy, blackmail, and violence were the social realities that encumber the flowering of good governance in the country. |
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Vultures and Candles as Metaphors of Leadership Failures in Emeka Nwabueze's A Parliament of Vultures and Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu's The Candles |
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