God in Nigeria: the country’s novelists help us understand the complexity of Christianity

By: Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, The Conversation

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Published: December 8, 2025

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By Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds

In African literature, Christianity has usually been shown as a foreign religion brought to the continent by European missionaries and colonisers. But in the past few decades, Nigeria’s writers have dealt with it in a far more complex way as Christianity is rooted in, and transformed by, local realities, ranging from conflict to prosperity.

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