Literacy has been identified as an important instrument through
which any country can attain development. It is on this belief that
government and people of Nigeria have taken the issue of how to increase
literacy rates among children and adults as an important one. Despite this,
Nigeria is among E-9 countries, which are countries that account for more
than 50% of the world’s population and have the highest number of illiterates
when her counterpart in other developing country for example Cuba has
attained almost 100% literacy rate. It is against this background that this
paper examines comparative analyses of the status of literacy in Nigeria and
Cuba. Factors responsible for the state of literacy in the two countries were
indentified and analysed. The paper concludes that Nigeria can learn from
Cuba in order to improve her literacy status.