Suchergebnisse

Àbíkú names in Femi Osofisan's Who's Afraid of Solarin require reconsideration, given their onomastic (literary) significance which provides a foray into the cyclic trend of Nigerian politics. In this respect, the Yoruba myth is exploited as an instrument of blending sociocultural, literary, and political contexts through naming. To achieve this objective, this study, therefore, explores two (2) charactonyms in the selected text using Onomastic Semiosis. Besides, an oral interview was conducted with an expert in the Yoruba culture to buttress the character analysis through a crossdisciplinary approach to name, orature, culture, politics, and religion from a Nigerian context. The thrust of the work is to establish that underdevelopment in Nigeria is an outcome of recycling of political leaders.

Onomastics, medicine and politics in this study are a pragmatic way of depicting the psychosocial condition of Nigeria as an underdeveloped nation. The study explores Femi Osofisan's The Engagement from a literary onomastic standpoint with the aim of exposing socio-political anomalies in Nigeria. Nigerian leaders commit flaws of egoistical and individualistic interests which often go against the consciences of the led. On this premise, the study explores the characters' names in The Engagement with a view to gaining insight into Nigeria's sociocultural and political contexts. Furthermore, Postcolonial Theory and Halliday's Contextual Theory of Meaning serve as the study's theoretical constructs. The study is predicated on the underdevelopment of Nigeria which is epitomised as a psychological behaviour of characters in a nation that is under the siege of political anarchy and different social vices.