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ABSTRACT

Education dilemma in Africa is the net effect breakdown of structures, superstructures and value-education. Education is a culture which transmits values. The values of a culture refer to core-elements of a culture which a people are ready to live or die for. Core-elements of a culture are the immutable elements of a culture. Value- Education is a transmission of these cultural elements from one generation to another. Chinua Achebe in his novels celebrates the values of justice, truth, respect, freedom, discipline, and democratic spirit, etc. Colonial education within the limits of its aims of education transmitted these values. Post-colonial education in most African nations broke with these values due to bad leadership, corruption, and indiscipline. The position of this paper is that education dilemma in Africa can be resolved through value –education and correction of structural error of most African nations.