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Class Stratification, Poverty And Social Injustice: A Critical Analysis Of Festus Iyayi’sviolence And Olu Obafemi Wheels
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1.1 Statement of Research Problem
Every research work poses as a
problem that needs to be resolved, which bring about the questions as
to how these problems that arises will be solved. The sole aim of the
researcher is to find answers that will best solve these problems.
Therefore this research will by the end have answered questions like:
1. What is Marxism?
2. How has the gap between the rich and the poor evolved?
3. What is poverty and class stratification and why is it regarded as social injustice?
In
an attempt to provide appropriate answers to these questions the
researcher will carry out thorough investigations on the Marxist theory
thereby making references to the work of other researchers and scholars
who have worked on Marxism. Also the works of Festus Iyayi and
OluObafemi, as earlier stated, will be used as well.
1.2 Purpose of Study
The
purpose of this study is to shed more light on the issues of class
stratification, social injustice, and poverty and how African writers
like OluObafemi, Festus Iyayi, AyiKweiArmah, IsidoreOkpewho,
NgugiwaThiong’o have used literature as a tool for the eradication of
poverty and to breach the gap between the rich and the poor.
Also, in
the light of these issues been faced in Africa, the aim of this study
is to also bring to the reader’s notice the importance of fighting to
get out of poverty in a dignifying manner and not allowing the
oppression and exploitation of the bourgeois just as Festus Iyayi uses
the character, Idemudia, in Violence to explain this, as well as how
OluObafemi explores these issues in Wheels.
1.3 Scope and Limitation of Study
The
major preoccupation of this study is to bring to limelight the issues
of class stratification, social injustice and the eradication of poverty
in the African society and how African literary writers have been able
to expose these ills with the intention of eradicating it from the
society. In order to achieve this, the research work shall be limited to
using Festus Iyayi’sViolence and OluObafemi’sWheels as the data for the
analysis of these issues.
1.4 Justification
Many scholars
and writers have examined class stratification as a component of social
stratification, perhaps, why it exists. Also ‘poverty’ has been examined
as one of the major issues in Africa and how it has become difficult to
eradicate.
Though scholars and writers have examined these motifs,
sometimes as a single entity and at other times collectively, readers
don’t yet seem to understand that poverty is what leads to class
stratification and social injustice. That is what Obafemi and Iyayi
pointed out in their novels, Wheels and Violence.
These novels were
the primary sources of reference as they capture the political
experiences of the people. Both novelists unfold the nature of the
instruments of power which were meant for effective governance is
misused on the governed especially the poor.
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