Socio Political Reconstruction in Bakare Ojo Rasaki’s Rogbodiyan and The Gods and The Scavengers

Over the years, the political landscape of Africa has been bedeviled by turbulent, political transition characterised by manipulation of process, political thuggery and gullible followers. Eradicating these political polemics in Nigeria and Africa calls for conscientisation to change the mindset of the politicians and electorate on perception of power. Potent tools of effecting this reorientation are political education by the agencies of government saddled with the responsibility of regulation and conduct of elections. Among the veritable medium of reaching out to populace for enlightenment are face to face interactive sessions, media and dramatisation. It is in furtherance of this crusade that, this chapter through critical reading examines the Sociopolitical construction in Bakare Ojo Rasaki’s Rogbodiyan and The Gods and The Scavengers. While Rogbodiyan dramatises the repercussions of political transition fraut with corruption and bribery, The Gods and the Scavengers, satirises the political buffoonery of exploiting the masses after giving politicians the mandate. Subsequently miserable living condition occasioned by appropriation of common wealth instigated the revolt to upstage their oppressors. Among other findings the two plays reinforce the crusade aimed evolving a new democratic culture of imbibing spirit of patriotism by the followership and putting service to humanity above self-enrichment in governance by the leadership in Nigeria and Africa.