Insecurity in a pandemic era: a literary analysis of the nexus between COVID-19 and security challenges in Nigeria

IF 0.7 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI:10.1080/13504630.2023.2227599
Evelyn Nwachukwu Urama
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ABSTRACT Nigeria has been battling insecurity due to the ravaging activities of different terrorist groups. The COVID-19 lockdown worsened the issue as it led to a hike in criminal activities. People were forced to sit at home for months and the unintended result of hunger and starvation prompted more criminal activities. While Boko Haram insurgents and Bandits have turned the North upside down with violent killings and abduction for ransom. Middle Belt is soiled with the blood of innocent people slaughtered by Fulani Herdsmen, resulting in food insecurity that has hit the nation so hard. But, the South is gripped with the fear of kidnappers, armed robbers, and unknown gunmen rampaging the society. Previous studies on the pandemic have paid little attention to the literary analysis of its relationship with security. Through Textual Analytical Criticism and Realism, Agary’s Yellow Yellow, Habila’s Oil on Water, Udenwe’s Satans and Shaitans, and Adimora-Ezeigbo’s ‘Mr. President’s Change Agent’ and ‘Dilemma of a Senior Citizen’ are analyzed in this study to explore pre- and COVID-19 era peace and security challenges in Nigeria and suggest ways of combating insecurity in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era.
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期刊介绍: Recent years have witnessed considerable worldwide changes concerning social identities such as race, nation and ethnicity, as well as the emergence of new forms of racism and nationalism as discriminatory exclusions. Social Identities aims to furnish an interdisciplinary and international focal point for theorizing issues at the interface of social identities. The journal is especially concerned to address these issues in the context of the transforming political economies and cultures of postmodern and postcolonial conditions. Social Identities is intended as a forum for contesting ideas and debates concerning the formations of, and transformations in, socially significant identities, their attendant forms of material exclusion and power.
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