Abstract
Chinua Achebe’s novel, Arrow of God, can be read as an ecumenical statement about how religious people should treat one another. Because it is mostly concerned with what Christians should not do, it can be said that the statement is made negatively. We do get some glimpse throughout the narrative, however, of “what might have been” had the British colonials and the Christian missionaries behaved differently in Nigeria among the Ibo. In this novel, Achebe tells the story of how those Christians and colonials dismantled the myth of the Ibo and began the work of replacing the Ibo mythic system, the rituals, and the social and political systems dependent on that mythic structure, with Christian and Western counterparts.