Nigeria's education curriculum has witnessed a paradigm shift in recent times with the infusion of entrepreneurship skills into the system. This initiative aims to equip youth with skills for self-reliance and self-employment, thereby addressing the country's high unemployment rate. In this paper, Literature, a subject in the humanities, has been identified as one area that can contribute effectively towards the attainment of entrepreneurial development among the teeming population of young people in tertiary institutions. Literature, mostly read for entertainment purposes, has the potential of triggering self and national development in its audience. We contend that literature could be transformative when it is written and read beyond entertainment. This paper therefore examines the contributions of literature in advancing entrepreneurial development in Nigeria through the exploration of Chydy Njere's novel, Ordinary Woman. The position of this paper is that there is an urgent need for the compulsory introduction of Literature into the curriculum of tertiary education in Nigeria at all levels, irrespective of the specialty or discipline. This paper concludes that exposure to Literature, especially to those literary texts that celebrate entrepreneurship, would better equip students and encourage them to find ways of self-improvement and self-actualisation after graduation. The data for this study is subjected to qualitative analysis following the principles of Norman Fairclough's (1989) Critical Discourse Analysis. Keywords: literature, novel, entrepreneur, CDA, employment, skills, self-employment, unemployment, education
Flavian-Obasi et al. (Mon,) studied this question.