Surviving Nigeria's Dystopic Bramble: A Postcolonial Reading of Kaine Agary'sYellow - Yellow

This study sets out to examineKaineAgary's Yellow-Yellow as one of the several novels that thematize Nigeria's unending ills. Its objective is to analyze the novelist’s artistic rendition of the unending ills plaguing Nigeria and the solutions proffered, if any. In procedure, the paper textually deploys the theory of Postcolonialism to critique Nigeria's venal climate of corruption, infrastructural decay, ethnic bias, sexual oppression, and poverty, and how these have disrupted the vital strings that once held the traditional communities together in pre-colonial times. The study discovers through the author's thematic appropriations that Nigeria's morbid state of affairs is a consequence of the high level of venality, the continuous mishandling of national ethics, and the constant deployment of disintegrative dynamics that cause contextual dystopia. Such dynamics include ethnicism, religious intolerance, and gender oppression. The paper concludes that the general social realist temper fictionalized in the novel does not evince enough positive indices to portend eventual salvation for the country.What is obvious is that the death of the dictator will not solve Nigeria’s leadership problems, since the next leader and his subordinates will possess attributes similar to those of the erstwhile leader and his progenitors in office. It is an unending cycle of socio-political venality. What distinguishes the author’s novel, however, is that she connects Nigeria’s problems with its lack of identified national values, inability to handle its ethnic, religious and multicultural issues, and failure to have a government that prioritizes the nation’s citizens’ well-being.