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    Collaboration as a Tool for Nation Building: A Reading of Ahmed Yerima's The Lottery Ticket
    (International Journal of Contemporary Research in Humanities, 2024) Olumuyiwa Paul OLAYINKA, PhD
    African playwrights engage their work in nation building by suggesting solutions to societal and national problems, Raji-Oyelade (2023). Although, some still focus on dramatising the problems alone, many ensure to suggest solutions Olayinka (2023). Ahmed Yerima, in most of his plays, does not only satirise problems, he almost always suggests possible remedies. The Lottery Ticket is a quintessential play which does not only examine the problems in the continent but goes further to proffer a likely way out of the problem. This study utilises a critical descriptive method to read Ahmed Yerima’s The Lottery Ticket. The objective of the study is to explicate collaboration as one of the strategies for solving Africa's problems as put forward in The Lottery Ticket. The theory of African Renaissance, a questionably offshoot of Pan Africanism, which believes among other things in the capacity of Africa to solve her problems is used to critically examine the play text. The study discovers that post independence African writers no longer dwell on the problems solely but have also been suggesting solutions. The paper thus affirms that literature is a strategic tool for nation building. Keywords: African Renaissance, Collaboration, Problem, Solution, Nation Building