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The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver is a bestselling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from Georgia to the fictional village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo. The Prices' story, which…
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what is the significance of the kikongo word nommo
The african political figures -Mobotu, Lumumba etc are all real people. Is the man referred to by Axelroot as "Devil one" based on CIA station cheif Lawerence Devlin who was in the Congo at the time of Lumumba's murder?
Within the Poisonwood bible (PWB) most of the characters have made sins and feel guilty but without this would the book be less important so how do you measure guilt and sin in the PWB as it took the death of a child to get Orleanna’s butt in gear which you can observed Orleanna's guilt and inability to forgive herself. So think about that and leave a opioion
