Chinyere Agabi’s “Thorn in The Head”: A Study of Social and Political Issues in Nigeria

The paper reviews Chinyere Agabi’s “Thorn in the Head”, with a view to exploring the Social and political issues that the work portrays. Agabi adopts the literary mode of writing to depict the social and political situations in Nigeria, some of the situations she x-rayed include the Nigerian Civil War experience and its aftermath, political instability, increase in social vices, the undermining of the rich cultural heritage, the close-mindedness of many Nigerians to new ideas as well as their attachment to some Obnoxious life-styles and practices.