Clashing for Foreign Gods on Home Soil

Source: tuesdaywithmorris

"Nnobi has three major institutions--the Catholic Church as represented by Madonna Catholic Church, the Anglican Church as represented by St. Simon's Church, and Chief Zebrudaya Okolo Igwe Nwogbo, alias '4:30.' The Catholic and Anglican Churches are our own Muslim and Christian divide. The Catholic Church would excommunicate a member who allowed his or her daughter to marry an Anglican.

Merely walking into an Anglican church would bar a Catholic from receiving communion until he or she undergoes opipia (atonement). The Catholics run the Boys Scout while the Anglican run the Boys Brigade. Catholic mothers join the M'ambo dance while the Anglican mothers join the Awelenma dance."

Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo (2006: 34-35)

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