PREFACE

ndigenous Africa, like ancient Nazareth, gets no respect and the reason is simple. Someone, sometime, somewhere said that Africa was a dark continent, without the knowledge of God, and that Africans were pagans until Europeans introduced God to them.

Well, whoever thought anything good could come out of Nazareth, yet out of Nazareth came God’s great gift to mankind! God again has surprised us all; He has chosen the despised of the world to manifest His glory.

  In the oral tradition of the Akan people of Ghana is found the accumulated wisdom of the ancients’ full of theological insights, now bearing witness to the greater light—the Bible. Through the oral traditions of the indigenous people, the concept of the true God of Creation, the knowledge of the Sacrificial System and Blood Atonement and the knowledge of Divine Redemption are all revealed in the symbols of Africa.

In the so-called heart of the darkness of Africa shines the light of the glory of God. Can anything good come out of Africa? Journey with me through these pages and you may be surprised at what you discover!

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“Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.”

The following are some of the issues addressed within the pages of this book: Where did Africans come from? Does Africa have a Biblical connection? Did Africa have a Theology of Creation? Did our African ancestors have a concept of the True God? Did Africa know God before the arrival of the European missionaries? Did God know Africa? Is Christianity a White man’s religion? Is Islam the authentic religion of Africa? 

Lamentation

I lament over the African American obsession with “Egyptology” or Ancient Africa to the neglect of Modern “Africalogy”. My hope is that this book will create a new love for Africa and an environment for a serious dialogue between the living children of Africa in the Motherland today and our relatives of the Diaspora. Through this dialogue, the current interest in Africa may be transformed from modern curiosity and fascination with some dead Africans turned mummies of yesteryear to an active challenge to get to know Africans still living on the continent.
So, while we pursue our often-unhealthy obsession for finding old treasure and gems in the remote graves of Egyptian mummies, let us not neglect the gems and geniuses of the modern descendants of Ancient Africa who live among us today. While trying to find treasures from the graveyards of history, we cannot be oblivious to the teachers and linguists whom indigenous Africa has produced. Egyptology must not be the whole but a part of African Anthropology.
I believe the time has finally come for indigenous Africa and Diaspora Africa to meet somewhere and to celebrate our “Roots in God.” And the best place to celebrate our African roots is at the junction where our Heritage and the Bible meet. And that’s exactly where this book and its author sit.

I live at the crossroad where African religious culture and Biblical theology meet. I was born in Ghana into the Asona Royal Clan of the Fante ethnic group of the Akan people. I grew up in the palace; therefore, I am no stranger to our heritage. I am also currently working on my dissertation for the Doctor of Ministry program at Andrews University Theological Seminary in Berrien Springs, Michigan. I am the Pastor of the New Dimension and Canarsie Seventh-day Adventist Churches in Brooklyn, New York.

Other questions I hope to probe are: What connection is there between the Jews and the Africans? Did God curse Black people? What indigenous African cultural principles can we find in the Bible? Are Modern Africans true descendants of Ancient Egyptians and Ethiopians? What was the cultural backdrop of the Ethiopian Eunuch’s acceptance of Christ as the True Sacrifice?

 Biblical Fruits on African Tree! How Incredible!

My exposure to our religious heritage and Biblical theology has given me a unique understanding of both.
By examining Akan culture and the Bible side-by-side, I have uncovered some startling facts which I present in this book, Africa’s Roots in God: The Knowledge of the True God Embedded in the Indigenous African Culture. This book is a window opened to “Africa’s Roots in God”. Message Magazine, a Black Seventh-day Adventist Magazine published an excerpt on this subject in the September/October 2004 edition.