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Right from the outset, this research has always focused on the need to portray the nature of post-colonial Nigerian ethnic conflicts as expressed in some literary texts and thereby see the possibility of using literature to initiate social change in tangible ways; for instance, the resolution of these conflicts. To achieve this, the scope of postcolonial studies as well as the direction the new trends in the humanities is taking, had to be highlighted; that is, that all ideas -economic, political, cultural, literary, social and scientific - are generally adaptable to real situations; but the extent to which they are adaptable is relative to the ability to make them concrete, tangible or graspable.

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Ile, Onyebuchi James attended Government College Umuahia and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he majored in German Language and Literature. He attended Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf and Westfaelische Wilhelm University, Muenster, Germany, where he obtained his M.A & Ph.D respectively.

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