Boko Haram and counter-ideology method: Portrayal of terrorism in Ahmed Yerima's Pari as socio-political cancer in Nigeria

This paper critically discusses the realities of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria, the attendant consequences, the polemics of casualties, and how portrayal of disenchantment in Ahmed Yerima's drama Pari projects nuances of instigating factors and variables. Thus this paper reviews critically the heart-rending questions that regularly pervade the various social communication mediums and platforms in Nigeria and beyond about the frightening complexity of terrorism that envelopes parts of north-east Nigeria. Hence, this paper adds to the existing scholarly efforts towards deepening of people's understanding of the intricate realities - which are perplexing, ugly and incongruous - that appear to instigate, propel and sustain the embers of discord which apparently keeps Nigeria in throes and on the brink. To add intellectual rigor to the scholarly polysemy and interpretation, this paper applies psychoanalytical theories of war according to Joost Meerloo, which espouses several angles to social struggles in which case 'mass discharge of accumulated internal rage' represents 'the inner fears of mankind' dissipated in mass destruction. The intent in applying the mentioned theoretical frame is to provide clear rational tangents that help to advance our interpretive analysis on human drive towards violence when in state of disillusionment and how war instigators use the disillusioned individuals as viable means of achieving their objectives as projected in Yerima's Pari. To analyze some trajectories of violence describable as terrorism in selected literature, this paper adopts interpretive analysis approach. The objective behind the adoption of this analytical approach is to see how logical deductions through the application of locale specific perspectives can aid towards finding domain specific prognosis to terrorism in Nigeria. Lastly, analytical deductions in this paper, in many ways add dense insight on the perspectives that can instigate an end to the debilitating consequences of terrorism in Nigeria and other similar troubled spots.