The Mark of Africa

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English

 

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Phyllis D

 

Date added:

June 30, 2014

 

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University

 

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A

 

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6 / 1454

 

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In the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, an evangelical Baptist minister named Nathan Price takes his family on a missionary in Belgian Congo in 1959. The book illustrates the hypocrisy of religious rhetoric and practice that sacrifices the many for the good of the few in power, and draws a clear parallel between a missionary's attitude and colonial imperialism...
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Nathan Price is a symbolic figure representing the way the U.S and Europe have approached Africa with cultural arrogance and misunderstanding at every aspect. Nathan Price demonstrates that religion and politics are not separate entities but a powerful combined forces used not only to "convert the savages" but to convert the masses to believe that what is done in the name of democratic, Christian principles is done for the greater good...
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