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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD.......................................................................................................II
By Dr. Benjamin F. Reaves (Former President of Oakwood College)..................ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT & DEDICATION................................................................III
PREFACE........................................................................................................... VI
Can Anything Good Come Out of Africa?.............................................................vi
PROLOGUE...........................................................................................................1
SHACKLED BY LIES! .............................................................................................1
Breaking Lose From the Last Chains of Slavery ..................................................1
The Fallacy of African Paganism ..........................................................................2
CHAPTER ONE .....................................................................................................5
AFRICA! KNOW THYSELF!.....................................................................................5
Lest We Forget and Die........................................................................................7
AFRICA’S BIBLICAL ROOTS..................................................................................11
Biblical Africa: Africa in Divine Providence............................................................17
CHAPTER TWO ....................................................................................................18
YAHWEH IN AFRICA: THE AKAN EXPERIENCE......................................................18
The Knowledge of Yahweh among Africans..........................................................19
Yahweh among the Ga People of Ghana .............................................................32
Yahweh in the Languages of East Africa...............................................................32
Yahweh and Jethro the Ethiopian ........................................................................37
Yahweh’s Shekinah Glory in Africa........................................................................37
CHAPTER THREE ...................................................................................................39
AFRO-HEBREW LINGUISTIC ROOTS .......................................................................39
Hamito-Semitic Roots ............................................................................................39
Hebrew Culture Followed the Path of Her Language ...........................................42
CHAPTER FOUR......................................................................................................45
CONCEPTS OF YAHWEH IN AFRICAN CULTURE.......................................................45
Biblical Truths in the African Village .......................................................................45
Symbols of African Culture with Biblical Significance...............................................45
CHAPTER FIVE .......................................................................................................56
BIBLICAL TRUTHS IN THE AFRICAN VILLAGE ..........................................................56
David’s Dance and Dress: African Cultural Explanation .........................................60
Eighth-Day Baby Dedication: Another Cultural Similarity .......................................62
Defilement and Purification....................................................................................65
In The Village........................................................................................................68ix
CHAPTER SIX .........................................................................................................72
AFRICA’S MESSIAH .................................................................................................72
Christ’s Redemption in the African Culture ............................................................72
Man’s Responsibility in Marriage Parallels Christ’s to the Church...........................74
The Foolish Promise:..............................................................................................74
Traditional Akan Wife and the Church....................................................................78
African Herald (Court Crier) and the Wilderness Cries of John the Baptist.............80
Passover Festival: African Celebrations of the Exodus ..........................................81
CHAPTER SEVEN.....................................................................................................86
ORAL TRADITION AND THE SUPREME GOD..............................................................86
Oral Tradition: The Vehicle of Akan Theology.........................................................86
The Concept of the Supreme Creator Transmitted through Oral Tradition.............86
Akan Intermediaries as means to the King ...........................................................95
The Ewes’ Concept of God.....................................................................................99
Africa, a Dark Continent? Somebody wasn’t Paying Attention! ..........................101
CHAPTER EIGHT...................................................................................................102
AKAN THEOLOGY OF GOD IN SYMBOLS ...............................................................102
Theological Adinkra Symbols of God ...................................................................102
Gye Nyame: Symbol of the Omnipotence of God ................................................106
The Concept of God and the Trinity ....................................................................111
African Trinitarian Adinkra Symbol........................................................................112
CHAPTER NINE.....................................................................................................117
THE SABBATH IN AFRICA .....................................................................................117
Creator’s Day Still Enshrined in the Akan Culture................................................117
Day-names Names of Days .................................................................................124
CHAPTER TEN.......................................................................................................126
THE SANCTUARY IN AFRICA .................................................................................126
African Sacrificial System and Blood Atonement...................................................126
Sanctuary in Africa................................................................................................126
Author, an Eyewitness..........................................................................................138
Back to our Heritage in God and Forward with our Mission for God......................142
CHAPTER ELEVEN..................................................................................................143
AFRICA IN THE SHADOWS OF CHRIST ...................................................................143
The Way before The Cross ....................................................................................144
God’s Intent...........................................................................................................146
Memorial Stone .....................................................................................................148
Could Judaism Be Rooted in the African Culture? ..................................................151
Biblical Culture was First African ...........................................................................153
CHAPTER TWELVE..................................................................................................158
AFRICA’S AESTHETIC THEOLOGY ...........................................................................158x
The Diaspora and African Aesthetics .....................................................................163
Africa’s Aesthetic Legacy to the World ..................................................................165
The Culture of Praise and the Dance ....................................................................166
What the Drum Says about God ...........................................................................168
Hear the Drum Talk................................................................................................171
CHAPTER THIRTEEN ...............................................................................................175
DOT EVANGELISM...................................................................................................175
Philip’s Method of Connecting the Dots..................................................................175
Solving Theological Confusion ...............................................................................177
Call for a New Approach to Evangelism ..................................................................178
EPILOGUE ...............................................................................................................180
UNSHACKLED BY THE TRUTH! ..................................................................................180
Fly, Eagle, Fly! .........................................................................................................182
POSTSCRIPT ............................................................................................................185
“SANKOFA” AFRICAN WISDOM..................................................................................185
PROPOSED ORAL TRADITIONAL SCHOOL CURRICULUM.............................................189
Oral Tradition as a Vehicle of Knowledge .................................................................192
Sankofa Series: ........................................................................................................196
BIBLIOGRAPHY ..........................................................................................................197
