Paper short abstract:

The paper illustrates and critically analyses some of the challenges facing Nigerian creative writers in the twenty- first century with the example of Adamu Kyuka Usman's novel Death of Eternity using Eco- Criticism / Environmentalism. to arrive at a conclusion.

Paper long abstract:

The Nigerian Writer and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: An Appraisal of the Challenges of the Nigerian Writer and the Eco-Critical Dimensions of Adamu Kyuka Usman's Death of EternityAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to appraise and critically analyse the challenges facing the Nigerian writer in the 21st century with particular emphasis on the Eco -Critical dimensions of Adamu Kyuka Usman's novel Death of Eternity using the tenets of Eco-Criticism / Environmentalism. The objectives of the paper are to identify the writer particularly the Northern Nigerian writer, examine the major challenges and problems faced in the 21st century. The position of the paper is that the Nigerian writer in general and the northern Nigerian in particular, despite the challenges has started shifting paradigmatically, from the fixation with culture and tradition to a concern with modernist themes and motifs and new direction in creativity and artistic praxis.