The Funny Side of Life: Exploring Humour and Social Commentary in Elechi Amadi’s Pepper Soup…

Abstract

This paper examines comedy as a humoristic and iconoclastic dramatic genre. The paper uses qualitative research methodology in examining Elechi Amadi’s Pepper Soup…and finds out that comic dramatic texts have the potential to draw from societal problematics and although these issues are presented in the most incongruous and or boisterous manner, they make critical commentaries that lead to eventual societal transformation and development. The paper concludes that a society without humour is not just on its knees or eventual death but lacks critics to return her back on her feet or from the dead. The paper encourages playwrights to intensify efforts in repositioning the Nigerian society through their creative works.