Oral Artistry and Ojaide’s Requiem for Looters: a Reading of the Fate of Vultures
Reuben Kehinde Akano, Ph.D
Department of English
Kwara State University, Malete
Email:omotwins@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Writers often seize on different styles to put across their messages in their artistic productions. Poets are no exception to this mode. This paper dissects Ojaide’s The Fate of Vultures as a poetic collection that focuses on the gluttony of the emergent leaders of the post-colonial African states. In this work, the poet employs satire in addressing social vices prevalent in society by castigating the perpetrators of these evil practices. It x-rays the impact of art to illuminate on the poetic tirade inherent in Ojaide’s collection and submits that satiric poems are genuine and potent approach to redressing and eradicating social vices prevalent in the socio-political arena of Nigeria and African countries by lampooning the offenders.
