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The colonial situation strongly influenced the upbringing, education, and the subject of the fiction of most African novelists. This is certainly true of Achebe as can be seen in the vivid account of his life which appears in his essay, “Named for Victoria, Queen of England.” In it he describes his childhood in a village where Christians and non- Christians were clearly divided, where he as a child of devout Christian parents was to look down on “the people of nothing”. Being brought up in a Christian family with an instructor father, Chinua was intimately familiar with the ways of the catechists to convert Africans into Christianity.