In the 1st century A.D. the early Christianity was introduced to the Africa continent. Some centuries later, in 7th century A.D. the Islam was spread over the continent. As seen these examples, the Africa had some experiences of dealing with foreign religions and systems. Especially, Islamic system had quiet influences over the continent. Thus, external influences were not as much as new to the African. However even with these contacts, most of regions continued practicing the traditional viewpoints. And more, the earlier Christianity and Islamic expansions, were not accompanied with practical forces, it rather smoothly spread with the trade or intellectual and cultural means. In this sense, the entry of missionaries gave shock to the people …show more content…
He managed an enormous farm from scratch, without his father’s inheritance, beat the famous wrestler, Amalinze the cat, and finally got two titles from the village. This village, Umuofia, could be called as the epitome of the pre-colonial society of this period. In fact, the society had different perception of the world from the Christianity’s. First, there were a variety of gods who controlled over the person and the village not like monotheism of the Christianity. People of Umuofia went to the Oracle of Agbala when they needed some advices or had some ills to amend, and there was the earth goddess, Ani, who controlled the harvest of yams and so forth. And more, there was also the impersonated being of ancestral spirits, egwugwu. Above these transcendent creatures, the most important or the essence of people’s destiny was chi which meant the personal god. Chi is very special form of spirit, that it cannot be seen in the Christianity. Its specialized features were noticed well in the description like, “If a man said yea his chi also affirmed,” “His chi might now be making amends for the past disaster.” It is like a form of spirits and its divinity resides in person. In the system of the Christianity, divinity is not innate at least to human