Open Access Library Journal 2017, Volume 4, e4083 ISSN Online: 2333-9721 ISSN Print: 2333-9705 DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1104083 Nov. 30, 2017 1 Open Access Library Journal “Fake Graduates” and the Fate of the African Society: Camillus Ukah’s When the Wind Blows and Rasaki Ojo Bakare’s Once upon a Tower Solomon Awuzie Department of English, Edo University, Iyamho, Edo State, Nigeria Abstract This article contends that every generation has its challenges and that the first sets of people that wrestle with the challenges are the youths. In each genera- tion, African writers make the challenges of the youths their major concerns. Like other generations, the youths of the contemporary generation are facing new societal challenges. For instance, in this generation, many youths gradu- ate from the university without being able to demonstrate mastery of the courses they spent years to study. Using Camillus Ukah’s When the Wind Blows (2007) and Ojo Rasaki Bakare’s Once Upon a Tower (2000) these are demonstrated. Through these works, the ugly situation that has so eaten into the fabric of contemporary African society is focused on. The works both stress the fact that more and more youths of this generation are graduating from African universities without being able to demonstrate mastery of their courses of study. While Rasaki Ojo Baraka’s Once Upon a Tower is used to expose the reality of some African graduates of gynaecology who learned the wrong way, Camillus Ukah’s When the Wind Blows is used to expose some other African graduates of Medical Laboratory Science who cannot carry out simple blood tests. The paper concludes by revealing the causes of the prob- lem and suggesting ways in which the problems can be solved. Subject Areas Literature Keywords Youths, Graduates, “Fake Graduates”, Generation, Survival, Camillus Ukah, Bakare Ojo Rasaki How to cite this paper: Awuzie, S. (2017) “Fake Graduates” and the Fate of the African Society: Camillus Ukah’s When the Wind Blows and Rasaki Ojo Bakare’s Once upon a Tower. Open Access Library Journal, 4: e4083. https://doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1104083 Received: October 27, 2017 Accepted: November 27, 2017 Published: November 30, 2017 Copyright © 2017 by author and Open Access Library Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access