In the beginning of the Poisonwood Bible, in Leah's chapter, we find out that Tata Ndu demands an election from the people to vote whether they should worship Jesus or not. I found this ironic to the point of comedy that Tata Ndu used the democratic process, which is generally known as a concept from the "western civilizations". I felt it was a bit of clever social commentary.
In the end, of course, Nathan's church of Jesus loses out to the tradtional deities. I thought Nathan had it coming, basically, since the villagers weren't exactly enthusiastic about praising Jesus in the first place, and only really started believing in Christianity as a gimmick (thinking it would give them good luck).
I felt that there was a certain bit of hypocrisy in it all, because the Price family came to Africa in order to try and convince the people of the village that Christianity could save them, instead of being happy with what the democratic process creates.
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