Exploitation and Resistance: Peter Omoko’s Majestic Revolt as Metaphor of Niger-Delta Narrative

Literary representations of the Niger-Delta question have seen large portraiture of injustice, exploitation, the psychological and environmental consequences of oil exploitation, and the resistance of the people. Peter Omoko’s Majestic Revoltis an added voice advocating the Niger-Delta condition. Although it is a dramaturgic enactment of the historical revolt in 1927 of the people of the former Warri Province against British Colonial Government, which attempted to impose head tax on them, when studied against the backdrop of socio-political realities and theories of exploitation, it is a sad metaphor of the Niger-Delta condition. Majestic Revolt does not only celebrate resistance against injustice in the face of blackmail and intimidation, it advocates retributive justice against internal sabotage of the people’s struggle for justice.