My understanding

For centuries, Africans and the African diaspora have been told that their story begins with slavery and ends with struggle. This book says it does not.

Written by a Yoruba person, father, and follower of Jesus, My Understanding is a heartfelt letter to his children and to Black people scattered across the earth. It weaves Scripture, history, old maps, coins, African cultures and personal testimony into a single, provocative claim: the story of God and the story of Africa are not two separate stories. They are one.

Across its pages, you will:

• See how European maps once labelled West Africa the "Kingdom of Judah" and the Atlantic the "Ethiopian Ocean"

• Discover how Yoruba, Igbo and other African customs quietly mirror the households of Abraham, Jacob, and the patriarchs

• Walk through Deuteronomy 28 and recognise five hundred years of African and Black history in its words

• Meet martyrs, generals, artists and builders who fought the long war against colonialism in Africa and the Americas

• Explore what it means, today, to live as a covenant people without arrogance, hatred, or begging

This work is not a systematic theology or an academic textbook. It is a testimony of reading - the Bible, the land, the maps, and a father's own life - offered to a generation searching for where they truly come from and who they really are.

If you have ever felt that the Bible was everyone's story except yours, this book invites you to listen again to the voice of the Shepherd - this time, from African soil.