ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the adroitness of literature, using selected recent dramatic texts in Nigeria, to interrogate the sociopsychological dimensions not often explored adeptly by other domains of scholarship with a view to unravel the unknown motives that have persistently ensured an inadequate interpretation, hence non-resolution, of the Niger-Delta crises in spite of concerted efforts by government, the people of the Niger Delta and other spirited individuals and organizations. The chapter posits that discourses so far on the causes and nature of the crises in the Niger Delta have remained inadequate inasmuch as they dwell on the superficial or literal aspects of the dimensions of the crises at the expense of the more expressive motives and dimensions: the sociopsychological dimensions. To this end, the chapter is foregrounded on the premise that until the sociopsychological dimensions are explored, interpreted and understood in addition to the other dimensions being discussed, the discourses in respect of the crises in the Niger Delta will continue to remain inadequate.
