AKỤỤWA IN OSUAGWU’S EGWUREGWU IGBO ABỤỌ: A Marxist Critique of Organized Religion

Abstract

Igbo writers like many other literary artists expose what is obtainable in the society in their literary works. In Akuuwa drama, Beteran Osuagwu exposed class differential as some leaders in the society especially some church leaders exploit and cheat the people they lead and brain wash them with deceptive information to make them perpetual followers. The researcher, applied observation method in her analysis of this drama. She related what happened in the drama to what she observes in our present society.  The theoretical framework for this study is the Marxism theory. This is because we see segregation based on class.