The Poor Christ of Bomba (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Alexandre Biyidi
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The 1930’s
- Setting: Southern Cameroon, the village of Bomba, and several smaller villages
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Satire
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Colonies or colonization, Prostitution or prostitutes, Missions or missionaries, Villages, 1930’s, Polygamy or bigamy, Christianity, Forests or forestry, Syphilis
- Locales: Cameroon
Characters Discussed
Father Drumont, a bearded, middle-aged, archetypal Catholic missionary who founded and for twenty years nurtured the mission at Bomba. A stern but not humorless man, he is obsessed with sex and disillusioned by his failure to persuade Africans to follow church teachings on chastity and monogamy. Frustrated by the persistence of the traditional African social and religious practices that he sees on his tour of the Tala villages, he concludes eventually that he cannot successfully Christianize the Africans. At the end of the tour, he decides to return to...
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