Author(s): MANASSETH T. IORTYER

Paper ID: 04

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Published Date: 2-09-2024

Published In: Impact International Journals of English

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Volume/Issue: Volume 1 Issue 1 September-2024

One of the major problems staring Africa in the face in the 21st century is that of failed leadership. This is occasioned by ineptitude, corruption and insecurity. Most African states are thrown into confusion and anarchy and are on the verge of total disintegration, resulting to loss of lives and properties. In the midst of these happenings, the literary artist has continued to lend his voice by criticizing, warning and advocating probable solutions even in the midst of these uncertainties. Adopting content analysis of the primary text, Wizard of the Crow. The paper makes use of the library and the internet for source materials, employing Literary Marxism as an interpretative ideology. This research takes a critical journey into Ngugi’s exploration of the failure of African leaders to harness the wealth of the continent in developing their states. The paper examines the nature of corruption of African leaders and the political elites in squandering and looting their countries’ wealth on useless projects that have no direct bearing on the citizens and the crisis situation perpetrated by these leaders. The paper examines Ngugi’s stance on protest by the teaming masses of Africa as the only way of checking political excesses of their leaders. This paper therefore focuses on the two dominant themes of corruption and protest in the novel and x-rays the novelist agitation that Africa’s problems can only be solved through African means from within.
Keywords: Leadership failure, Africa, Artist, Marxism, Corruption, Protest