The missionaries' main purpose [in Nigeria] was to convert as many people as possible to Christianity while also educating them from a Eurocentric perspective, turning them away from their apparently primitive and barbaric way of life, plus getting them to give up land that was theirs to house churches they never knew they needed. This education included learning the Bible. The same Bible that had been used to subjugate Africans who were stolen and taken abroad. The same Bible with all that worshipping of an impossibly blond and blue-eyed Jesus, with Black people being cursed as descendants of Ham. And with all that obey-your-master, turn-the-other-cheek shit. That stuff that keeps you accepting horrendous abuses in this life with a hope of ascending to heaven in the end.
-- Gina Yashere, Cack-Handed, p. 60
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