Abstract
While Nigerian youth may learn moral values through film watching, it is observed that they acquire alongside good morals, immoral values such as nudity, violence, lies, deceit, illicit sexual activities, and many others. Serious novels, on the other hand, engage readers in the act of critical thinking, helping them to make assessment or process properly information read in order to imbibe lasting values such as critical reasoning, hard work, respect for culture and self-respect, amongst others. This study is a critical examination of Nigerian society and the lifestyle of people, especially the rich and famous, characterized by deceit, success, passion, mischief, betrayal and quest for revenge as reflected or refracted in Araceli Aipoh’s novel, No Sense of Limits. The study is significant because it reveals the modern African culture as it has been greatly influenced by neo-colonialism, imperialism and capitalism. Thus, Aipoh’s novel is recommended to any Nigerian youth and Africa, at large, who desires to consider the ‘soft lights and high lights’ of modern African life to learn, as can be deduced from the text, better ways to self-actualisation and nation building. The method of practical textual criticism is adopted in the study.
