Abstract
This paper explores the epistolary form of narrative and communication in the works of Abubakar Gimba and Sarah Ladipo Mayinka. The paper explains that there are different forms which writers can use to convey their message in literature, which the epistolary letter writing form is one of them. In his epistles, Gimba addresses all the problems that keep the nation from development in the past and the present suggesting to his children what they can achieve with moral rejuvenation and would address corruption as the root of the problems facing the nation. While Independence also traces the trajectory of Nigeria’s political past from the period of independence to present. The paper adopts modernism as a theory and concludes that the epistle as form of narrative and communication can be deployed effectively in literature, citing Mariama Bà’s So Long a Letter as an example.