INVESTIGATION OF TRAUMA IN FUNKE AKINDELE’S A TRIBE CALLED JUDAH AND KENNETH NNEBUE’S DIED WRETCHED

Trauma is a deeply distressing experience that greatly impacts individuals’ psychological, emotional and physical wellbeing. Hence this study will focus on examining its type and causes, effects and defense mechanisms as demonstrated in Funke Akibdeke’s “A tribe called Judah” and Kenneth Nnebue’s “Died Wretched” . The methodological approach used in this study is the psychoanalytic approach because trauma is like a sickness of the mind, it has to do with matters of the subconscious mind. The study discovers that Funke Akindele and Kenneth Nnebue through the characters, reveals how people become the things they hate as a result of one traumatic experience or the other,. The findings reveals that the subconscious has a greater percent influence on our consciousness as we tend to react physically based on what we are facing or have faced psychologically. The study concludes that both movies are like mirror or a reflection of the inner mind and the physical reaction of an individual