Title:   YOUTHS AND ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF ABUBAKAR IBRAHIM’S SEASON OF CRIMSON BLOSSOM

Abstract
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim's debut novel, Season of Crimson Blossom (2015) has
been read by scholars as a text on gender discrimination and female
subjugation, quest for survival, lust and its attendant sexual escapades, cultural
limitations, Oedipus complex, rejection, psychosis, pain, corrupt political
structure and so on. While the aforementioned interpretations of this text are
insightful, however, the flagrant manipulation of the youths by political office
holders to achieve their selfish gains in the text is yet to get adequate scholarly
attention. Relying on the political culture theory as the tool with which the
analysis of the text will be made, the paper adopts a qualitative approach as its
research methodology. This paper examines the untoward acts of political
office holders who in their selfish, dishonest and deceitful manners, manipulate
the minds of the young population, to remain as tools in their hands in settling
scores between themselves and their political opponents. Consequently,
findings from this study reveal that there is a specific link between the role of
education in liberating the minds of the youth from wanton juvenile activities
and the conscious effort of the political class to retain these youths in illiteracy
and ignorance. This is to continually exert their will on the majority of the
masses who voted them into power.
Keywords: Youths, Electoral Violence, Education, Political Manipulation,
Corruption.

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Publication Date: 2024-03-18