Debayo Coker

Societal Fragments Debayo Coker

Societal Fragments is a wrap of some of the happenings of our common existential ingenuity as humans in relationship with one another. It encapsulates our daily living, particularly as Nigerians, especially as Africans and as citizens of the world in general. The book is a cocktail of all the genres of Literature; narrations are interspersed with poetry and drama, with pointed trajectory to the main. Most part of the book is written in present continuos tense to depict the currency of events as applicable to every society. The stories are written with utmost simplicity void of any superfluity. One of the settings is Aga Area, Iju-Isaga, just about a mile away from the Dana plane crash of June 3rd 2012 that claimed many lives in Lagos, Nigeria. Male chauvinism, feminism, workers plight, sexual harrassment in high places, girl-child education, police extortion, widow's plights and corruption are some of the issues address with subliminal precision to details. You will sure find this course worthwhile; no second here is lost.