From Lexical Variation Towards the Imagology of Christianity in African Characters Case of Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba by Mongo Beti and La Croix du coeur by Charly Gabriel Mbock

Résumé

This work is analyzing the part of the character’s religious imaginary of two
Cameroonian novels: Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba de Mongo Beti et La Croix du coeur de Charly
Gabriel Mbock. The observation which brings us to engage that study is the difference of the
sentiments over the Africans as far as the Christianity is concerned, sometimes adopted and
sometimes rejected. It is resolving the semantic aspects of the vocabulary of the colonized
“assimilated” in front of the Christianism. Precisely, is this vocabulary uniformed in both cases?
The hypothesis assume that there is a variation between the pejorative and good perspective.
The result is that, inside the francophone sphere, the Negroafrican use of the French talking
about the artefacts of the occidental culture, religion in this case, is adjusting itself to the
according to her enrolment or not. Consequently, it is important that, because of the political,
economic and particularly cultural relations that a horizontality should be used in order to
enrich the cosmopolitanism so beneficial to the francophone area.