Setbacks in Religious Education as seen in Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Djoleto's The Strange Man

Abstract: Religious education has taken multidimensional ways in the contemporary Africa and sometimes threatens children’s future. This paper expounds the setbacks in religious education as seen through Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Djoleto’s The Strange Man. Remarkably, children cope with indoctrination, hypocrisy, and an inflexible life shaped by patriarchal fathers and teachers. This work is framed with postcolonialism to assess the impact of the western ideologies in the current African society. The paper concludes that education is a weapon which can be used to change the world. This calls for seriousness, carefulness, love and respect. When it is taught wrongly, it may become a destructive weapon. Furthermore, children must be allowed to make their own path; this will favour their blossoming to good citizens.