THE BORROWED god

What happened to Africa?Not to its land or its resources - those losses are documented. But to its people. To their sense of who they are, where they come from, and what their inheritance is worth. The Borrowed God is the book that asks the question nobody in your church, your school, or your family will ask. It traces - with honesty, with evidence, and with the fierce love of someone who belongs to the people he is writing about - how a continent that gave birth to human civilization came to measure its own worth by someone else's standard.
Before the first missionary ship docked on African soil, Africa was not a continent in darkness. It was a continent in motion. Alive. Ordered. Purposeful. Our forefathers built entire civilizations, governed vast kingdoms, healed the sick, raised children, and sustained their communities - all without a single foreign religion telling them how to do it. They had something older and deeper than religion.
They had tradition. And that tradition was not superstition. It was science. It was medicine. It was governance. It was a sophisticated, accumulated body of knowledge that connected the individual to the family, the family to the community, the community to the land, and the land to the ancestors who had walked it before. Then a ship arrived. And on that ship was a God - borrowed from another people, shaped for another land, and carrying another people's idea of who Africans should be and what their past was worth.
Spanning seven chapters, The Borrowed God examines what that arrival has cost us