Fact As Fiction in Debo Kotun's Abiku (Critical Essay)

Abstract This paper discusses fact as fiction in Debo Kotun's novel, Abiku wherein the interesting locus of history and fiction is expounded as an expose on Nigeria's recent political history to establish the book as a worthy example of a novelistic hybrid of history and fiction. Thus this work shows that in its bid to articulate social and historical reality, it also harnesses the intricate resources of fiction and history as a socio-historical aesthetic imperative.