Culture and Religion in ‘Mission to Kala’

[The Herald]CAMEROONIAN writer Mongo Beti explores the thorny issues of culture and religion in a compelling way in “Mission to Kala” (1957), using the satirist trope and modernist traits of sentimentalism and the picaresque.Although the novel tackles other themes like education, oppression and colonisation, which have left an indelible mark on the African landscape, it is the way Beti explores culture and religion which prompts close analysis.