Journal of Development Communication And Applied Theatre

The sudden rise in the prices of goods and the complementary increase in demand in Nigeria is an indication that there is a defect in the application of economic ideologies which other nations apply to control their economies. As an escalating social challenge, ideology moribundity alongside with the consequences in an economy has found a cogent conduit in Bakare's This Land Must Sacrifice. This paper is a critical examination of the directionless ideology and how it affects the society to the extent of activating revolution. The method of the study is Causal Comparative Studies, theorized on Marxism which highlights economic circumstance as the stranglehold of conflict and class stratification in the society. Findings show that neither capitalism nor socialism is conscientiously implemented in Nigeria, and a headless economic ideology can sink a nation's economy. Those in the positions of power exacerbate the problem by siphoning and hoarding public funds for private use and diverting public privileges to their relatives; and that as prices rise, the fear of starvation has made people to make more demand while domestic productions are neither implemented as a national assignment nor willing individuals empowered to produce due to the inordinate misappropriation of agricultural funds. The paper concludes that every hungry and frustrated person possesses an angry and revolt-prone mind, but when a hungry man is filled he may sublimate anger to promote creativity in the society; and it is only a united people that can change a social course to create history in the society

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