Uzukwu, Gesila NnekaGesila NnekaUzukwu2024-02-052024-02-052023978-3-86309-963-3https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/93208Critical discourses in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus have generally engaged this important postcolonial work from the perspectives of colonial history, gender dynamism, deconstruction of its narratives, and the literary/linguistic agenda of its characters, plots, and dialogues. Departing from these dominant approaches, the present study appropriates the discourses, worldviews, and values of Purple Hibiscus through the prism of liberation theology. It examines the theological motifs in Purple Hibiscus in critical conversation to patriarchy, colonialism, and sexism. Grounded in liberation methodology of African women theologians, the study offers new perspectives in Adichie’s representation of radical female characters, and their traumatic quest for liberation in patriarchal and post-patriarchal spaces. Through these feminine encounters, Purple Hibiscus provides a theological guide for the task and practice of African liberation theologyengChimamanda AdichiePatriarchyliberation theologieChristianityReligionPurple Hibiscuspostcolonialismviolencepatriarchal resistanceGender810bookpart