is based on basically two things – knowledge and power. Nigerian author Chinua Achebe once wrote that the time and place in which he was raised was “a strongly multiethnic, multilingual, multi-religious, somewhat chaotic colonial situation” (Education 39). No better words could describe the Nigeria from the end of the 19th century to today’s 21st (Guthrie, 2011). Most of the writers in Africa use their works to explore and portray these themes. In Home and Exile, Chinua Achebe defines his writings