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ABSTRACT
The study tries to investigate his employment of characters and language in his drama text. The study shows that Akoma proves his act of imaginative and artistic composition of events in Obidiya. The sequence of event in the drama text are causally linked, whereby both the characters, themes, actions, language are united. He treats the theme of man’s inhumanity to man.
The researcher also did a review of related literature of previous materials and works carried out by different scholars. The research design adopted for the study is a descriptive survey type. The survey method helped the researcher to be able to ascertain accurately the extent to which Enyinna Akoma has been able to use language effectively to achieve his purpose in Obidiya and to assess how he has been able to employ the characters in the drama text to address the prevailing societal problems and also to identify the narrative devices and the themes evident in the text. The method in which the data was collected was through secondary sources i . e the library. Then for our data analysis, considerable information was gathered for the study.
He projects characters through their actions, as well as statements made by other participating characters about them. Most of the characters are fully developed whereas some are partly developed. He makes use of real names in presenting human characters and most times, some of these names are means to depict or reflect the action of the character. In the play, events of the story are presented sequentially and in their order of occurrence from the beginning to the end. The plots of the story follows a pattern in which the link or the relationship between events are governed by causality. Akoma has the mastery of the art of language use. His language generally is standard Igbo though he sometimes enriches his work with as many stylistic devices as possible like the use of foreign or loan words, igbonization of some English words and use of dialectal words among others.
