Vultures and Candles as Metaphors of Leadership Failures in Emeka Nwabueze's A Parliament of Vultures and Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu's The Candles

• Main Authors: Aniago, Emeka, Eze, Norbert Oyibo, Okoye-Ugwu, Stella, Joe, Divine Sheriff
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: corruption; democracy; military; politics socioeconomic; squandermania; thick description
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss36/5; 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
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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...