Revolutionary Strategies in Wale Okediran's The Boys at the Border

Abstract

Challenges of insecurity, especially in Africa, have become very problematic. In political, religious, economic, and marital terms, almost all parts of Africa are embroidered in one form of upheaval or the other. This paper investigates and analyses the nature of insecurity buttressed in Wale Okediran's The Boys at the Border and demonstrates that oppression, brutality and lack of respect for human lives are its hallmarks in Africa. The paper shows the various means by which novelists hope the challenge of insecurity can be addressed. It finds that desperate and revolutionary solutions must be adopted if the challenge of insecurity is to be addressed effectively. The research was anchored using Marxism Theory. The novelist offers suggestions on how the challenge of insecurity can be tackled. It concludes that, as portrayed in the novel, open confrontation with bad resistance and selfless sacrifice are the major revolutionary strategies required to fight the menace of insecurity.