SAFEGUARDING THE CITADEL: SOCIAL DISILLUSIONMENT AND THE MORAL QUESTION(S) IN IKECHUKWU ASIKA'S CORD OF LIFE

Abstract

Writers, undoubtedly, use their pen to create awareness on all that is happening in their Wsociety to the general public. A writer is, therefore, an educator, a diviner, a seer, moulder, aspokesman as well as a preacher. As a preacher, a writer writes to criticize and moralisethe evil vices in the society. Hence, his aim is to correct these ills via his writings. Research hasshown that there is a gross reduction in the moral standard or values with which the youth especiallythe students operate in our universities today. This work shows that the moral standard in our societyhas deteriorated to the point that our students no longer care about the consequences of living a nonconformitylife style. The gut with which they display these clandestine behaviours is one to bequestioned using Ikechukwu Asika's Cord of Life. This paper is critically examined throughmoralistic theory. The work serves as an insight to all the mayhem being carried out in ouruniversities today as well as the aftermaths of such behaviour