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ABSTRACT
The common and recent methods of textual literary analyses border around texts' extrinsic evaluation which takes into detail their environmental influences and implications. This study links with the relevant few (as was popular in the early and mid-twentieth century) which examines the text independent of its world value. Using the formalist approach to literary criticism that was a dominant mode of literary investigation, this study reviews Okey Ndibe's Arrows of Rain on the basis of its form of an allegorical and satirical prose fiction, and the content of the text; the writer's expert application and deployment of key elements of fiction writing: setting, characterisation and suspense, in depicting and buttressing his subject matter and themes. This study goes on to explicate the text's spatial, temporal and modal localities and their crucial positions in the literary work; the personages that undertake, embody and reflect critical notions of the text; and how the writer skillfully strings these elements to build on the reader's cognition and interest as he unravels his artistic intentions.
