Literature must serve the society by stepping into politics, and by intervention. To achieve these writers must not merely write to amuse or to take a bemused, critical look at the society role. Literature should be politically and socially committed. Any good story, novel or drama should have a message and a purpose. Moral decadence is a cankerworm that has eaten deep into the fabrics of our society. Bribery, corruption, fraud, embezzlement of public funds among others, is found in almost every sector of our society. It is seen from the politicians to the public servants, to the civil servants and also found among the youths. Owing to this, writers in Nigeria have taken upon themselves to address and expose the state of moral decadence in our society with the purpose of correcting and bringing about a change in the moral behaviors of the citizens of the country. Accepting that moral decay is a vice that has become part of our society may be a sure way of joining heads to fight this vice.

This study is particularly concerned with the theme of moral decadence in the emergent Nigerian drama and this will be realized by doing a critical study of two drama texts written by Emeka Nwabueze : A Parliament of Vultures and Esiaba Irobi’s Hangmen Also Die. The secondary method of data collection was used. Other useful sources included magazines, journals, articles, libraries, postworks and internet. The literary theory used in this study is the Marxist theory. The goal of Marxism is to bring a classless society, based on the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange. The theory is also built upon the socialist thinking which was produced in France Revolution and it inverted some of the early idea of economic and social benefits to the entire society.

Abdominal trauma in children is defined as the set of lesions produced in the abdomen, its contents or its walls, respecting or not the parietal continuity. The objective of this work is to contribute to the improvement of the care of the patients concerned in the pediatric surgery department of Bangui. We conducted a retrospective study from january 2012 to september 2016 on 86 files. The male sex (70.93%) predominated in all age groups. Etiologies were dominated by road traffic accidents (45.34%), falls (20.93%), firearms (19.76%) and weapons (3.48%).  Abdominal contusions were more frequent (70.93%). Most of the patients (59.3%) had surgery: the spleen was the most affected full organ (51.2%), the ileum was the most affected hollow organ in 12.2% of the case. Fractures (44.11%) were the extra-abdominal lesions associated with abdominal trauma. Complications were dominated by parietal suppurations in 60% of cases. Depending on the mode of discharge, there were 5 deaths, ie a mortality rate of 5.8%. Thus, the management of abdominal trauma in children remains difficult in our context where it is cruelly lacking the appropriate means to be able to make a precise lesional assessment in order to give the best treatment.

The aim of our work is to study the various aspects of the management of childhood cancers in Bangui. The mean annual incidence was 5.09 cases. The age ranged from 2 months to 15 years, with an average of 8.21 years, the 10 to 15 year age group (42.85%) being the most affected. The majority of patients consulted between the 2nd and 6th month of the disease. The most frequent localizations were maxillofacial (32.14%), abdominal (25%) and cervical (10.71%). Clinical signs were swelling (87.5%), anemia (82.14%), altered general status (69.64%) and adenopathy (55.35%). Cytoption (44.6%) was the most common type of sampling followed by biopsy (23.3%) and surgical specimens (19.6%). The lymphomas (58.9%) were the first with a predominance of Burkitt's lymphoma (81.82%), followed by sarcomas (12.5%) and leukemias (8.9%). Treatment included chemotherapy (26.78%), surgery (8.92%) and surgery associated with chemotherapy (8.92%). The survival of children was 23.21% at 3 months and 8.92% at 6 months. The loss of follow-up was 53.58% at 6 months of decline. The death rate was 26.79% at 3 months and 33.92% at 6 months, a relapse case (1.79%). The availability of anticancer drugs and follow-up of patients are important to improve the prognosis.