Sidney Davis’s Reviews > Interface Between Igbo Theology and Christianity > Status Update

“Both the C.M.S. and the Roman Catholic pioneers were all united in denigrating the whole of Igboland as ‘the citadel of Satan’. Father Lutz, the leader of the Holy Ghost Fathers’ Igbo Mission, had written…all those who go to Africa as missionaries must be thoroughly penetrated with the thought that the Dark Continent is a cursed land, almost entirely in the power of the devil. (Holy Fathers’ Archives, Paris 115/A)