Images Of Social Vices In Contemporary Nigerian Poetry (a Study Of Denja Abdullahi’s Mairogo And Jide Balogun’s The Desert In The River)

As a result of social vices in our immediate environments this research work aims at bringing out how contemporary writers have reacted to the bad happening in the society, especially using Denja Abdullahi’s Mairogo and Jide Balogun’s The Desert in the river using sociological theory to investigate social vice that were present in the two texts and it is discovered that poetry is used as a means of achieving an egalitarian society. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1    Introduction 1.2    Purpose of the study 1.3    Significance of the study 1.4    Scope and Limitation of t…