<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This study is informed by the observation of some dangerous threats to faith’s missionary and human developmental goals as well as Salvationist stance. The alarm has been sounded that fanaticism of any colour at all is not only inimical to the raison detre of faith’s cardinal objectives but more tellingly, constitutes a serious endangerment of humanity, particularly the Nigerian enterprise. Deploying exemplifications from Chinua Achebe’s <italic>Things Fall Apart</italic> (1958) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s <italic>Purple Hibiscus</italic> (2006) in an eclectic combination of a body of qualitative instances drawn from the Islamic and the Christian faiths the paper underscores the danger inherent in bigoted faith both to faith itself and to the society. The paper urges the painstaking reification/inculcation of the principles of tolerance and patriotism in children in their formative years through literary creativity, the precepts of inter and intra religious tolerance respecting the West African sub-regional stance for secular imperatives and egalitarian. This is to enthrone lasting peace in the African sub continent and the world a piece.</p></abstract>

This study is informed by the observation of some dangerous threats to faith’s missionary and human developmental goals as well as Salvationist stance. The alarm has been sounded that fanaticism of any colour at all is not only inimical to the raison detre of faith’s cardinal objectives but more tellingly, constitutes a serious endangerment of humanity, particularly the Nigerian enterprise. Deploying exemplifications from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2006) in an eclectic combination of a body of qualitative instances drawn from the Islamic and the Christian faiths the paper underscores the danger inherent in bigoted faith both to faith itself and to the society. The paper urges the painstaking reification/inculcation of the principles of tolerance and patriotism in children in their formative years through literary creativity, the precepts of inter and intra religious tolerance respecting the West African sub-regional stance for secular imperatives and egalitarian. This is to enthrone lasting peace in the African sub continent and the world a piece.

Faithful Prodigals, Precarious Polity and Re-Jigging National Discourse: Readings from Two African Novels

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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This study is informed by the observation of some dangerous threats to faith’s missionary and human developmental goals as well as Salvationist stance. The...

Faithful Prodigals, Precarious Polity and Re-Jigging National Discourse: Readings from Two African Novels

Publié en ligne: 05 déc. 2019

Pages: 156 - 172

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2019-0016

Mots clés
faithful prodigals, precarious polity, re-jig, national discourse, formative years, religious (in)tolerance, christianity, islam, reification

© 2019 Ogbu Chukwuka Nwachukwu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Faithful Prodigals, Precarious Polity and Re-Jigging National Discourse: Readings from Two African Novels

Publié en ligne: 05 déc. 2019

Pages: 156 - 172

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2019-0016

Mots clésfaithful prodigals, precarious polity, re-jig, national discourse, formative years, religious (in)tolerance, christianity, islam, reification

© 2019 Ogbu Chukwuka Nwachukwu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
faithful prodigals, precarious polity, re-jig, national discourse, formative years, religious (in)tolerance, christianity, islam, reification