A COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE SURVEY OF CHANGE: A RACE FOR LIFE; AN INHIBITION BY SAVAGE KINGDOMS

Abstract

Change is considered a race for life and an inhibition by savage kingdoms. In carrying out this survey, the concept of change is determined and equated with revolution, a higher and/or a radical change. By this merger, the paper surveys change as political, economic and socio-cultural upheavals that rock Europe in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries and substitute monarchical hegemony in America, France and Russia, as well introduce fundamental industrialization which places Europe at a pedestal higher than other nations. It also surveys change as savagery meted to non-industrialized continents of Africa, Asia and other parts of the globe, wherein spearheaded by Britain, the industrialized nations embark on colonialism, convinced by social Darwinism, that they are “most fit” to rule the “less fit”. Slavery-colonialism-neocolonialism become policies for this superiority, against which African and/or Asian leaders continue to initiate changes favourable to the economic mainstay of Europe, the United States, and Russia. This work as well surveys how the barrage against Judaeo-Christian Samaritanism and attitudinal turnaround enforced by Nigeria’s change mantra complement planned inhibition, by savagery, to erase divine truth and make the ruled docile to the innovation enriching the West. The theory of communicative competence – whose conceptual distinctions: linguistic competence, sociolinguistic competence and strategic competence, pari passu – provides the skills for this survey. This paper highlights, therefore, that change with its management has ever been walking hand-in-hand with man, favouring few and disfavouring the majority.