Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict

Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict goes beyond the existing clichés about the operations of the European Christian missionaries and opens alternative ways to read the chain of missionary-native African, and missionary-European colonists relationships.

Ali Yiğit is an Assistant Professor of English at the Department of Western Languages and Literatures, Kırklareli University, Turkey. He was born in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Fatih University, Turkey. His research interests include but not limited to: Literatures in English, postcolonial studies, eco-criticism, literary and cultural theories, and popular culture. He has recently published ＂Nowhere at Ease: Listening to Syrian Refugee Trauma in Christy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo (2019)＂ in Journal of European Studies, and ＂Reflections on Kenya’s Economic Impasses: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Matigari and Wizard of the Crow＂ in Research in African Literatures (2022).