Purpose-driven education as panacea for domestic violence in Nigeria

This study professes the role of purpose-driven education as a panacea for domestic violence against women. It follows the reported cases of domestic violence in Nigeria in recent times, which have necessitated increased research to end the menace. The current study contributes to such efforts with a perceptive look at purpose-driven education on the part of women, as demonstrated in Femi Osofisan’s Wuraola Forever and Altine’s Wrath. It identifies childlessness, mistress, in-laws, and illiteracy as some of the least explored causes of domestic violence in Nigeria. The study observes that women have suffered much in marriage, not only due to their ill perception as second-class personalities in male-dominated societies, but more so because they lack a purpose-driven enlightenment. Osofisan, in his bid to proffer a solution to this menace, therefore, spawns a metaphor for domestic violence in marriages in the literary texts with his heroines—Wuraola, Altine, and Dr. Aina, and confronts the metaphor at its empirical points. Purpose-driven education is established as the most powerful means for the emancipation of women from domestic violence, as the heroines only escape the oppression of their husbands and in-laws through this means.