Crime Waves and Human Rights Violations in Lagos Cityscape in Selected Nigerian Short Stories

S. Olaniyan
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this study investigates the normality of crimes and human rights violations in the selected short stories of Jude Dibia, Chika Unigwe and Nnedi Okorafor as representatives of 21st century Nigerian short stories that thematise criminality and desecration of human rights. Specifically, the paper explores various crimes such as armed robbery, hooliganism, bribery, extortion, murder, security agents’ connivance with criminal elements and the resultant human rights violations. Deploying postcolonial urban theory as its launching pad to interrogate the postcolonial realities within Lagos spatiality and crime wave, the paper shows that the police play major role in the escalation of crimes and perpetuation of human rights abuses through collusion with armed robbers and engaging in bribery and corruption, conspiracy theory, brutality, concealment of crimes and criminals and extrajudicial killings. Considering its cosmopolitan nature, Lagos is metaphorised as the microcosm of the nation; thus, realities within Lagos cityscape expose happenings in the nation at large. The socio-economic anomic situations depicted in the stories justify their post-independence disillusionment and jeremiad.  
尼日利亚短篇小说选集中拉各斯城市景观中的犯罪浪潮与侵犯人权行为
本研究选取了21世纪尼日利亚以犯罪和亵渎人权为主题的短篇小说代表人物Jude Dibia、Chika Unigwe和Nnedi Okorafor的短篇小说,考察了这些短篇小说中犯罪和侵犯人权的常态性。具体而言,本文探讨了各种犯罪,如武装抢劫,流氓,贿赂,敲诈勒索,谋杀,安全人员与犯罪分子的纵容以及由此产生的侵犯人权行为。本文以后殖民城市理论为平台,对拉各斯的空间性和犯罪浪潮中的后殖民现实进行了探究,表明警察通过与武装劫匪勾结、参与贿赂和腐败、阴谋论、暴行、隐瞒犯罪和罪犯以及法外杀戮,在犯罪升级和侵犯人权行为的延续中发挥了重要作用。考虑到它的世界性,拉各斯被比喻为国家的缩影;因此,拉各斯城市景观的现实暴露了整个国家发生的事情。故事中描述的社会经济混乱状况证明了他们独立后的幻灭和悲叹。
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