Beti/Poor Christ of Bomba
A 3 page book review that offers a summary and comments on this novel by Mongo Beti, which offers a highly critical view of European-led Christian evangelism in southern Cameroon in the 1930s. The main thrust of the novel serves to refute the relevancy of Christianity to traditional African life and, in so doing, indicates that rather than aiding Africans in any meaningful way spiritually, the main effect of evangelistic efforts is to facilitate colonialism by creating social chaos. No additional sources cited.
File: D0_khbeti.rtf
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