EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESECRATION: AN ECOCRITICAL READING OF KAINE AGARY’S YELLOW YELLOW

Abstract

No doubt, numerous scholars have carried researches out on Nigeria’s squalid state after her independence. The focus of many of these studies range from investigating many of the topical issues that have come to define the country— from war, economy, to politicking. However, not many scholars have paid the enough attention to the ecological concerns of Nigerians. This paper, therefore, examines Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow as a testament to the environmental mindfulness of Kaine Agary, Nigerian novelists. The choice of this text is informed by the fact that there is a dearth of serious scholarly research on the novel. Using the theory of Ecocriticism, this study finds out that the author, Agary, is not unaware of the ecological implications of man’s exploitative tendencies on earth’s resources. In fact, he uses his work to berate these forces that promote the unchecked desecration of the mother earth, using the Niger Delta region of Nigeria as a case study.