So in a sense, was this new Christianity that brought … division to Igboland.” “Conversely, if you were CMS, you did not attend Catholic weddings. “The rules were very clear, you did not attend weddings if the weddings were held in the CMS Church if you were Catholic,” said the author of the much-lauded novel Americanah. Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who recalls being drawn to the ornate “drama of Mass” as an Igbo child growing up Catholic in Nigeria, reflected on how faith relates to her work during a talk at Georgetown yesterday.Īdichie recalled the divisiveness in her country between the Protestants, mostly members of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Nigeria, and the Catholics, as she talked with Paul Elie, senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs as part of Georgetown’s Office of the President’s Faith and Culture Lecture Series.
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