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           ACHEBE AND SOYINKA,   WHO IS GREATER? T he issue of greatness in literature is a multifaceted and untimely, a bias issue which many a time had favoured many against the intention, willingness and intended destructive censorship of greater population than those it favours. One of the reasons for this is that, if greatness in art or literature is measured with the yardstick prescribed by Matthew Arnold which emphasises thd voracity of the knowledge of a writer on other languages and literatures written in them, then it rather becomes an altercation since there would be just few who may avail their time to do that. On this area I may ascribe the honour to the laureate, Wole Soyinka, considering the Nigeria literary scene. But, if the parameter revealed by John Ruskin which says that an artist is great whose work(s) Conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatsoever, the great number by a higher faculty of the mind, as it more fully occupies and in occup

                          Abstract. In Rusk (1969: 30), Plato remarks that “those who are rightly educated generally become good men.” The ability of a nation to grow and develop depends on the quality and emphases in her education system. National growth in this view becomes estimated by the number of “good men” produced by the nation, not basically on the number of nature wealth such as minerals, forestry, arable land and sea products she is endowed with. Of course, Nigeria has all these in abundant added to larger population but she is one of the poorest nation around the globe. Any nation whose population or majority of her inhabitants are under the slavery of both suffering and wants the evidence obviously stands apparent proof that such country has a large slack in her education, for the ability of man to use those resources to improve life and living depends on education; the thrust, quality and dept of education received. Therefore it becomes a doom to any country’s educ