Oluwafemi Sunday Alabi

Literature and Postcolonial Realities Oluwafemi Sunday Alabi

The book is an exploration into the postcolonial 'pandemics'-the COVID-19 pandemic and the 'rape pandemic' in Nigeria. It, on the one hand, explored the sudden outbreak of the novel Coronavirus (COVID- 19) pandemic which plunged the world into unprecedented crisis and brought about great changes in global politics, economic, health, sociocultural and religious practices. It delved into the role of cartoons and comics in the narrative of the pandemic, in crisis communication and coping strategies, contending that cartoon and comic strips served to enlighten the people as well as to cushion the psychological, moral and emotional effects of the pandemic on the populace during the difficult time. The book, on the other hands, investigated the menace of 'rape' and sexual violence in Nigeria in relation to the gamut of socio-political violence that has plagued the nation. It examined the multidimensional phases of 'rape', emphasising on the rape of human body and sociopolitical rape in Nigeria, contending that sexual violence as an offshoot of socio-political violence is associated with the contravention of democratic confidence reposed in the people at the helm of affairs by their subjects.