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“Fake Graduates” and the Fate of the African Society: Camillus Ukah’s When the Wind Blows and Rasaki Ojo Bakare’s Once upon a Tower

DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1104083, PP. 1-11

Subject Areas: Literature

Keywords: Youths, Graduates, “Fake Graduates”, Generation, Survival, Camillus Ukah, Bakare Ojo Rasaki

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This article contends that every generation has its challenges and that the first sets of people that wrestle with the challenges are the youths. In each generation, African writers make the challenges of the youths their major concerns. Like other generations, the youths of the contemporary generation are facing new societal challenges. For instance, in this generation, many youths graduate from the university without being able to demonstrate mastery of the courses they spent years to study. Using Camillus Ukah’s When the Wind Blows (2007) and Ojo Rasaki Bakare’s Once Upon a Tower (2000) these are demonstrated. Through these works, the ugly situation that has so eaten into the fabric of contemporary African society is focused on. The works both stress the fact that more and more youths of this generation are graduating from African universities without being able to demonstrate mastery of their courses of study. While Rasaki Ojo Baraka’s Once Upon a Tower is used to expose the reality of some African graduates of gynaecology who learned the wrong way, Camillus Ukah’s When the Wind Blows is used to expose some other African graduates of Medical Laboratory Science who cannot carry out simple blood tests. The paper concludes by revealing the causes of the problem and suggesting ways in which the problems can be solved.

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Awuzie, S. (2017). “Fake Graduates” and the Fate of the African Society: Camillus Ukah’s When the Wind Blows and Rasaki Ojo Bakare’s Once upon a Tower. Open Access Library Journal, 4, e4083. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1104083.

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