Umar Abdul's The Inheritor: An Exploration of the thematic Concept of Religious Chauvinism by Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy
- - Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy An ill child left in a shrine to be healed by the shrine god (while the father goes in search of herbs) is found by a White Christian priest who believes the child was kept there as a sacrifice to the idol, especially as it was left there unattended. The priest supposedly rescues this child and takes him to Rome where he grows up to become a priest. The young priest hears extraterrestrial voices ordering him to seek out his roots and interprets this as God asking him to return and show the 'light' to his father and people. Meanwhile, his father; who happens to be the priest of the village deity (Okwula); suffers from a curse of dumbness placed on him by the ancestors and which could only be cured the day his lost son comes seeking him. The questions now are: How do father and son meet? Who ends up converting who? I should like to answer the