The sooner we start to see the arts as a critical enterprise  the higher for us Names like Chinua Achebe  Wole Soyinka  Ben Enweonwu  John Munonye  J P Clark  Niyi Osundare  Odia Ofeimun  Chimalum Nwankwo  Chimamanda Adichie  and so on became household names because they believed within the arts and in themselves and took the humanities severely