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Abstract
This paper sets to look at the social Realism in Africa Fiction as it is dramatized in Esiaba Irobi’s Hangmen Also Die and Anasi Obuneme’s The Indispensable Aching Tooth. The interest of this study in these plays is centered on corruption which is the key problem portrayed in these playtexts. Corruption gave rises to other problems such as Unemployment, Oppression, Embezzlement, Briber, Religious Segregation, Terrorism, Murder and Cultism. The term social Realism which is the main concept understudy can be defined as a work of art which reveals the truth, which may emphasized the ugly and sordid. It can also be described as a new visual source that creates a desire for people to produce things that look objectively real. Realists believed in the ideology of objective reality and they revolted against exaggerated emotionalism. All these can be said to be found in these two playtexts as it tries to portray all the ills affecting the society as it is written without embellishment. Thus, this paper used the two fiction texts to show that Africa writers do not write in vacuum but they write to show various aspect of Social Realism in African society. Keywords: social realism, fiction, Africa fiction and corruption.