《神箭》是阿契貝的小說中眾所公認最晦澀難懂的一部作品。書中充滿了殖民文化與伊博格文化的衝突。面對殖民文化的強烈入侵，伊博格人該如何與之抗衡。這篇論文針對真理、宗教與權力三個面向，來探討殖民文化與伊博格文化之間的差異。西方人認為真理只有一個並且是永恆不變的。伊博格人卻認為真理是兩面的，且相互平衡。每個人對一件事情所提出的不同看法，皆是反映出事情真相的不同面向而已，因此真理並非絕對的，而是相對的。其次、本篇論文再探討基督教與伊博格傳統宗教的對抗。多神論的伊博格人對信仰的態度是非常的開放與彈性，不似一神論的基督徒絕對與單一。基督教入侵之後帶給伊博格傳統宗教前所未有的衝擊，而正因為伊博格文化本身之兼容並蓄才使得整個伊博格族能夠永續生存。再者，本論文以傅科式的權力概念來分析伊博格人對權力的看法。從伊博格人的觀點，權力是流動的，不僅是從上而下的統治更是由下而上的反抗。本篇論文旨在呈現《神箭》如何顛覆西方世界對於真理、宗教及權力的一元思考，進而帶領讀者進入非洲文化中變動不居的世界觀。

　　Arrow of God, Achebe’s third novel and many would say his most enigmatic one, depicts a fictional community of Igbo speakers grouped in six villages collectively known as Umuaro. Faced with a strong invasion of colonial power and forceful imposition of Christianity, the Igbo culture is at a crossroads; indigenous belief, at stake. This thesis examines the Igbo conceptions of truth, religion and power in order to explore the dilemma of the cultural, religious and political clashes between the Igbo tradition and the British imperialism. Transcending the Western concept that truth is univocal, the thesis emphasizes the duality of truth: the second point of view in Arrow. According to the Igbo philosophy, when a central point of view is presented to elucidate what truth is, the counter point of view is always proposed to question it. Paradoxically, there is no dichotomy in truth but rather a unitive principle of viewing two as one, many as one. The thesis then moves to an examination of the ambivalence of Igbo religious belief resulting from aggression of alien proselytizing Christianity. The denouement of Arrow manifests the flexibility of Igbo beliefs: the collective abandonment of their god, Ulu and their communal conversion to Christianity. This sudden transformation of their belief reflects Igbo’s inherent nature of flexibility in adapting to the changes of the world. Furthermore, Arrow is also a book about power in circularity. According to the Igbo politics, power is exercised not only from the dominant to the dominated, from top down, but also from the dominated to the dominant, from down up. The notion of Foucault’s power relations is used to explicate the novel.

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