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The Poor Christ of Bomba - Classic African Novel by Mongo Beti | Historical Fiction & Postcolonial Literature | Perfect for Book Clubs & African Studies
The Poor Christ of Bomba - Classic African Novel by Mongo Beti | Historical Fiction & Postcolonial Literature | Perfect for Book Clubs & African Studies

The Poor Christ of Bomba - Classic African Novel by Mongo Beti | Historical Fiction & Postcolonial Literature | Perfect for Book Clubs & African Studies

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In Bomba the girls who are being prepared for Christian marriage live together in the women's camp. It is not clear whether the girls have to stay in the women's camp for such long periods for the good of their souls or for the good of the mission-building program. Only gradually does it become apparent that the local churchmen have also been using the local girls for their own purpose.Other titles by African writers from Waveland Press: Ba, So Long a Letter (ISBN 9781577668060) Emecheta, Kehinde (ISBN 9781577664192) Equiano, Equiano's Travels (ISBN 9781577664871) Head, The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales (ISBN 9781478607601) Head, Maru (ISBN 9781478607618) Head, When Rain Clouds Gather (ISBN 9781478607595) La Guma, In the Fog of the Seasons' End (ISBN 9781478600251) Marechera, The House of Hunger (ISBN 9781478604730) Mofolo, Chaka (ISBN 9781478607151) Ngugi-Mugo, The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (ISBN 9781478611318) Nwapa, Efuru (ISBN 9781478611011) Oyono, Houseboy (ISBN 9781577669883) Oyono, The Old Man and the Medal (ISBN 9781478609582) p'Bitek, Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol (ISBN 9781478604723) Plaatje, Mhudi (ISBN 9781478609575) Rifaat, Distant Views of a Minaret and Other Short Stories (ISBN 9781478611288)

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This is a hilarious and heart wrenching story of the lack of fit between the Catholic Church and the people of Cameroon in the French colonial days. It is told as a coming of age story of an extremely repressed church boy following and assisting the mission priest as he goes out to review and shore up a series of disastrous church plantings in the more rural areas. It is one of the more lighthearted presentations of the experience of colonialism in African literature. Beti has created an enduring myth of the triumph of Africans over their European overlords clothed in an endearing ridiculousness. When it was written the French banned the book in the colony of Cameroon, so Beti got the last laugh. The Church is a stand-in for French colonialism in general and the devastation it left in its wake. There are certainly no saints in the story. The church boy is trying desperately not to be African. The cook, who is the other member of the priest's entourage, is fleecing the system for everything he can get. The villagers and the students at the mission school get hit with Beti's satire as well as they try in various ways to get around the colonial system or to make it work for themselves.

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