Satire in Nigeria’s insecurity ecosystem

S atire is often described as the literature of contradiction. Unlike ordinary humour, whose principal purpose is entertainment, satire deploys irony, parody, exaggeration, ridicule, and inversion to expose the absurdities of social and political life. It flourishes where reality itself begins to appear irrational. The satirist laughs, not because events are funny, but because the contradictions embedded in those events have become too glaring to ignore.
Maj-Gen. Abubakar
 
Classical satirists understood this well. Jonathan Swift’s famous proposal that impoverished Irish families sell their children as food was not an endorsement of cannibalism but a devastating critique of British ...