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The recurrent ideas and linguistic choices of the authors have been the focus of examination of this essay. Helon Habila, just like some other African writers, sees the dare need to reposition a dying African society in terms of orderliness and expression of fundamental human rights; the need to expose the inordinate activities of the system of government and its agents, its negative influence on a large population of the masses as in form of dehumanisation: unlawful imprisonment, brutality and impoverishment. In the same vein, although with a different intensity, Uzodinma Iweala’s Beast of no Nation is a depiction of the predicaments of victims and the several manifestation of war. It hinges on how war can lead to abduction and child soldiering, and the psychological reaction of these soldiers alike to the people in the society who eventually become the victims.
This study has on one hand examined the themes of unlawful detainment (more evidential in Waiting for an Angel) as seen in the case of Lomba’s imprisonment. Everywhere to Lomba as depicted is like prison to him: his house, his school and the society as a whole. About brutality, both books capture it with disparity. While in (WfaA) brutality is seen as the method in which government as well as its agents deal with the masses. It is ironic that the government which is supposed to protect her citizen ends up hitting them with blows. The act of brutality here is less intense as compared to that in (BonN) where it is used to reveal the animalistic or rather the beastly nature the commandant-soldier has inculcate into children-soldiers and how these young soldiers carry out brutality on their victims.
