consists of millions of people, many of which lead important roles in each other’s lives. Everyone has the ability to influence someone to do virtually anything, and this is especially effective with relatives and those one is close to. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart showcases the life of the main character’s son Nwoye. The boy constantly aims to satisfy his father’s hopes of his son becoming as successful as him, but Nwoye eventually gives up. Throughout the rest of the novel, the boy undergoes a
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