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â€˜BAD MILK POLITICSâ€™ AND SOCIO-POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: INSIGHTS FROM BEN OKRI

Authors: ADAM Ezinwanyi

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In Nigeria today, political communication, especially during campaigns, is viewed to be characterized by dishonesty and hypocrisy. Also, politics is seen as a synonym or twin brother of corruption and social vices such as looting of public funds (also known as â€˜National Cakeâ€™), violence, oppression, among others. This may be largely attributed to the kind of politics played in Nigeria and Africa at large, which includes the â€˜Do-or-Dieâ€™ politics, described as bad or rotten milk politics in Ben Okriâ€™s The Famished Road. This paper, therefore, is a critical analysis of what constitutes bad milk politics, factors that contribute to its growth and how it affects socio-political development of Nigeria. It also considers possible solutions to bad milk politics in Nigeria and Africa, as communicated in Okriâ€™s award winning novel. The method of critical content analysis and the theory of Sociology of Literature are adopted for the analysis of the text. The paper reveals that literature, the novel in particular, remains a veritable tool of educating the masses of the different forms of oppression, violence and corruption that characterized bad milk politics. It is concluded that like the media, the novel is also an important medium of teaching the masses of their fundamental human rights and other rights as citizens of the State. It teaches the masses how to protect not just themselves, but the society against all forms of vices and injustices for the growth of the State.

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