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‘The Evil You Have Done Can Ruin the Whole Clan’: African Cosmology, Community, and Christianity in Achebe's Things Fall Apart

‘The Evil You Have Done Can Ruin the Whole Clan’: African Cosmology, Community, and Christianity... J. KW A B E N A ASA M O A H -GY A D U This article exames ‘community’ as a cosmological category through Chua Achebe’s Thgs Fall Apart. One study has noted that the novel ‘occupies an important place critical as well as cultural discourse because it augurated a long and contug tradition of quiry to the problematic relations between the West and the nations of the Third World that were once European colonies’ (Okpewho 2003: 3). Further, Thgs Fall Apart reflects changes the nature of digenous religion and underscores the erosion of some traditional religio-cultural values the face of an aggressively evangelical and external religion. At the time, Western missionary religion had several senses become an extension of colonialism. The itial encounters between the Ibo traditional community and what Isidore Okpewho (2003: 8) describes as ‘the encroachg British colonial presence’ brought to tragic confrontation some of the highly valued ideals of Ibo society. One of these is the African sense of community. What is this African understandg of community and what way does Achebe’s novel enable an understandg of how the Western Christian missionary enterprise affected this critical ontological value of traditional society? Community as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in World Christianity Edinburgh University Press

‘The Evil You Have Done Can Ruin the Whole Clan’: African Cosmology, Community, and Christianity in Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena
Studies in World Christianity , Volume 16 (1): 46 – Apr 1, 2010
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Edinburgh University Press
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© Edinburgh University Press, 2010
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Philosophy & Religion
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1354-9901
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1750-0230
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10.3366/E1354990110000742
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J. KW A B E N A ASA M O A H -GY A D U This article exames ‘community’ as a cosmological category through Chua Achebe’s Thgs Fall Apart. One study has noted that the novel ‘occupies an important place critical as well as cultural discourse because it augurated a long and contug tradition of quiry to the problematic relations between the West and the nations of the Third World that were once European colonies’ (Okpewho 2003: 3). Further, Thgs Fall Apart reflects changes the nature of digenous religion and underscores the erosion of some traditional religio-cultural values the face of an aggressively evangelical and external religion. At the time, Western missionary religion had several senses become an extension of colonialism. The itial encounters between the Ibo traditional community and what Isidore Okpewho (2003: 8) describes as ‘the encroachg British colonial presence’ brought to tragic confrontation some of the highly valued ideals of Ibo society. One of these is the African sense of community. What is this African understandg of community and what way does Achebe’s novel enable an understandg of how the Western Christian missionary enterprise affected this critical ontological value of traditional society? Community as

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