DRIFTING FROM THE EARTH TOWARDS DEATH: A STUDY OF STEPHEN KEKEGHE’S RUMBLING SKY

Ejiodu, Michael; Okwechime, Ehi

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Volume 6, Numéro 1, Pages 198-208
2025-01-15

Drifting From The Earth Towards Death: A Study Of Stephen Kekeghe’s Rumbling Sky

Authors : Ejiodu Michael . Okwechime Ehi .

Abstract

Ecological and sociological studies are generally intertwined, especially in literary survey. The neglect of the earth ultimately leads to death of society to which it supplies the ingredients of corruption which also impacts negatively on the polity. This is a major trajectory in the poetics of today and the concern of this study. Environmental literature, which gives ecological issues a prime of place, focuses on the elevation of awareness about environmental justice, the preservation of the earth and the espousal of nature in both literary discourse and physical realism. The need for this direction was generated to save the environment including humanity. This is the thrust of engagement in this paper, which takes Stephen Kekeghe’s Rumbling Sky as its primary text. The paper found that the environment has not and is not being treated fairly and justly, rather it has been grievously abused and misused. Intermingling with this injustice to the environment is the corrupt attitude and engagement of the people, especially those in power. The consequence of this is the death of the waters and the forests, the land and air and the inhabitants of these, especially within the Niger-Delta region. In the face of the discovery, the paper therefore concludes that there is a general drift from the earth which ought to breed life towards death due to humanity’s attitudes and actions.