ABSTRACT
In Achebe’s oeuvre, beyond doubt, Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God have a special place in terms of familiarizing us with the early missionary-native African encounters and developing relationships between these groups. This chapter scrutinizes missionary-native African relationships and dialogues with all their aspects in order to provide a holistic and objective picture of the images/representations of Christian missionaries in these novels. It is found that missionaries evade an easy classification or categorization inasmuch as missionary-native African and missionary-colonist relations are multidimensional. Succinctly put, all sides, namely, missionaries, colonists, local pagan Africans, and native converts have both won and lost in their mutual affairs.
