The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (and Some Lesser Tales)[1] is a book of short stories written by George Bernard Shaw, published in London by Constable and Company in 1932.

The title story is a satirical allegory relating the experiences of an African black girl, freshly converted to Christianity, who takes literally the biblical injunction to "Seek and you shall find me.

She then meets an atheist behaviourist (with a strong resemblance to Ivan Pavlov) and a coterie of intellectuals who explain that speculations about God are passé, and that a better quest lies in abstract mathematics.

as an emerging feminist figure, able to defend herself with her knobkerry and—although apparently naïve—having a powerful intellect capable of formulating searching theological questions, and exposing vapid answers.

This use of a superior person supposed by popular prejudice to be inferior, both by her sex and her race, is paralleled by the character of "The Negress"—a powerful figure in The Thing Happens, which is the third part of Shaw's Back to Methuselah.

In December 1932 Constable and Company published an edition engraved and designed by John Farleigh with the title The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God.

[4] Shaw was greatly distressed when the perceived "irreligious" tone of Black Girl caused a rift in his long-term friendship with Dame Laurentia McLachlan, Abbess of Stanbrook;[5] although eventually they reconciled.

A light-hearted riposte appeared in a similarly-presented volume, The Adventures of the White Girl in her Search for God by Charles Herbert Maxwell,[8] which showed a modern young woman wielding a niblick (golf club) on the cover.

[12] Mabel Dove's satirical response, entitled The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for Mr Shaw (1933), was included in the British Library's 2015–16 exhibition West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song.