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    A Dialectical Analysis of National Security, Survival Strategies and Political Expediency in Emmy Idegu's The Legendary Inikpi
    (Department of Theatre and Media Arts, Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria, 2024-04-02) Michael Olanrewaju Agbool, PhD
    This paper is a dialectical analysis of national security, survival strategies, and peculiar circumstances that dictate approaches to securing a nation as exemplified in Emmy Idegu’s The Legendary Inikpi. Using descriptive methodology, and nativism as theoretical framework to interrogate the play, the study found out the structure of Hegelian dialectics - thesis, antithesis, and synthesis – in the dramaturgy. It also discovered the employment of human sacrifice, and the diabolical weapons in the play to conform with the nativists’ theory, a branch of postcolonial theory. It found further that, in African societies, wars are fought not only physically, but also spiritually, employing the operations of the powers from unseen forces, especially mysterious ones, such as the gods and the ancestors, invoked by man, and that every war is political. Multifarious exigencies are also discovered to determine the strategies employed in wartime to secure a nation. Being a period of desperation and emergency, decisions taken in wartime are often unexpected and out of the ordinary, with far-reaching implications. The study, therefore, concludes that political leaders must be ready all the time, not only to make decisions but sacrificial ones for national security.