“Chielo, the priestess of Agbala, called the converts the excrement of the clan, and the new faith was a mad dog that had come to eat it up.”

—  Chinua Achebe, book Things Fall Apart

Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 16 (p. 133)

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