The Impact of Christianity on the Igbo and the Gikuyu Community in Africa as Revealed in Arrow of God and The River Between

Sheikh Zobaer
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Religious conversion was an extremely important and effective strategy for the European colonizers to establish their colonial dominance in Africa. The diffusion of Christianity across Africa helped the colonizers gain acceptance and support among the natives, which in turn gave the colonizers more control over Africa. During the inception of European Christian missionary activities in Africa, those who accepted Christianity were favored by the colonial administration; but those who opposed, faced persecution. As more and more native Africans espoused Christianity and eschewed their native religions, Christianity emerged as a distinct threat to the native African cultures, religions, and associated rituals. But such mass proselytization hardly had any altruistic cause; rather, the conversion game helped the colonizers hide how they exploited Africa under the cloak of philanthropy. The newly-converted Christians were indoctrinated by the missionaries to such an extent that they started to loathe indigenous culture. In some cases, they channeled their loathing for indigenous belief system into actively opposing and obstructing the practice of native African religions and rituals. This paper examines Achebe’s Arrow of God and Thiong’o’s The River Between to discover how Christianity helped the European colonizers expand colonial territory and tighten their stranglehold on native African cultures.
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从《上帝之箭》和《其间的河流》看基督教对非洲伊博人和吉库尤人社区的影响
宗教皈依是欧洲殖民者在非洲建立殖民统治地位的一项极其重要和有效的战略。基督教在非洲的传播帮助殖民者获得了当地人的接受和支持,这反过来又使殖民者对非洲有了更多的控制权。在欧洲基督教在非洲传教活动开始时,接受基督教的人受到殖民政府的青睐;但那些反对的人面临迫害。随着越来越多的非洲原住民信奉基督教,避开他们的本土宗教,基督教对非洲原住民的文化、宗教和相关仪式构成了明显的威胁。但这种大规模的传教几乎没有任何利他主义的原因;相反,皈依游戏帮助殖民者掩盖了他们如何在慈善的外衣下剥削非洲。新皈依的基督徒受到传教士的灌输,以至于他们开始厌恶土著文化。在某些情况下,他们将对土著信仰体系的厌恶转化为积极反对和阻碍非洲土著宗教和仪式的实践。本文考察了阿切贝的《上帝之箭》和Thiong'o的《介于两者之间的河流》,以发现基督教是如何帮助欧洲殖民者扩大殖民领土并加强对非洲本土文化的控制的。
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