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Book Review: The Snuff Snub In Sonmazhi.

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GENRE: DRAMA                                                AUTHOR: JIBRIN BALA  JIBRIN PUBLISHER: IMAGE PUBLISHERS REVIEWER: TUNJI OLADIRAN The play, The Snuff Snub in Somanzhi , shows that the Nigerian landscape where writers live is naturally prone to various problems ranging from socio-cultural, political, moral, divorce and extra-marital affairs. Therefore, playwrights are extrinsically motivated to transcribe their visual shorthand into dramatic forms and this they do because they are products of the contemporary ‘sins’ of their immediate environments. In effect, their credo or artistic consciousness reflects the experiences in human life. In the play, the theme of forced marriage continues to fester like a sore and this reveals the socio-cultural and immoral behavioral practices in the larger society. The mentality of those forced into marriage becomes severed, their perception of marriage suffers and in many cases, they flee from their