MANICHAEAN PROBABLE POSSIBILITIES: RESTIVENESS IN ESIABA IROBI’S NWOKEDI

The better part of the world runs on ideas and ideologies; and the Manichaean concept although from an extinct religion of yore has been brought to the fore on the contemporary issue of good governance and social stability. The Manichaean idea of duality and dichotomy based on good and evil is brought on the fictive verisimilitude of Esiaba Irobi’s play, Nwokedi to bear on governance and social stability in Nigeria. The outcome is more or less a warning of sorts: that it is important to prevent restiveness and a bloody revolution like the Nwokedi example, than to face the dilemma of the inevitable but not totally predictable duality of outcomes