ECOSYNTHESIZING THE NIGERIAN SOCIETY IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD: IMPERATIVES FROM WOLE SOYINKA AND IYORWUESE HAGHER

The Nigerian society has paraded a myriad of problems owing to globalization which has threatened the disappearance of the Nigerian cultures and values leading to a chaotic and bizarre physical, economic as well as social environment. Whereas the benefactors of this trend are the world economic powers, whose policies and activities are poised to suppressing Nigeria s economic development; Dramatists have joined other experts in questioning the environmental conditions of the country and the economic strength in competing in the global world. The summary is that Nigeria has been on the losing ends in the global society. To salvage this situation is the continuous literary construction on the importance of the Nigerian cultures and values against the foreign invasions for the purpose of preservation, education and sales in the global market. Two Nigerian plays are employed as paradigms in this exercise.