Abstract
ABSTRACT The article shows how the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, captures the use of sports, especially, football, as an instrument of evangelisation in her award-winning novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003). This is through the character, Father Amadi, a Catholic priest, as he plays football with the poor boys in and around the University chaplaincy where he works. The paper then examines the significance of Father Amadi’s particular brand of Football evangelisation to the contemporary Church in Africa, especially, the Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria in which Adichie grew up.
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