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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 TowerDOI: 10.4236/oalib.1104083, PP. 1-11 Subject Areas: Literature Keywords: Youths, Graduates, “Fake Graduates”, Generation, Survival, Camillus Ukah, Bakare Ojo Rasaki Abstract
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.
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. References
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