POLITICS OF VIOLENCE AND REVOLUTIONARY VISION IN IMEH ETUK’S REVOLT OF THE DOGS AND OBARI COMBA’S GRIT

Abstract This study examines the politics of violence and revolutionary vision in Imeh Etuk’s Revolt of the Dogs and Obari Gomba’s Grit. While some scholars have explored the themes of political violence and revolutionary change in African literature, there is a gap in existing research regarding the specific ways in which Etuk and Gomba’s works address these issue. This study examines the cause and effects of political violence, and the vision of writers to use revolutionary approaches to solving socio-political problems in the society. Deploying postcolonial theory as an analytical framework, and adopting a qualitative approach, this study critically reads, appraises, and analyses Ime Etuk’s Revolt of the Dogs and Obari Gomba’s Grit, which are the primary sources, alongside secondary materials. The research reveals that writers continually use or envision a better society through a revolutionary approach to solving every antisocial, oppressive tendencies of leadership in the society. Ime Etuk and Obari Gomba, in diverse ways, uses their plays as a metaphor that implies that through revolutionary approaches against the evil political system of the society, we could realise a better world to live in. The study concludes that creative writers have continued to use their talents to seek ways of bringing about societal change and correcting the wrongs prevalent in societies, especially the African society where the stories are set.