Does Africa Need God?: A Perspective From An Atheist in Africa

By George Ongere

Finding a book talking about African Atheism written by an African is still very rare. The book explores the roots of African Atheism and debates about the problem of religion in Africa. In the end, the book proposes killing the God idea in Africa and replacing it with a rational society. In this way, Africans can start to deal with their problems and do away with the approach of waiting for a supernatural God to sort their challenges.Africa is a deeply religious continent. Many Africans believe that even though they suffer from poverty and lack of many resources, there is a supernatural being in the heavens watching carefully and will one day rescue them from the obstacle that makes their daily lives. If not, then this supernatural being will reward them in the life after death for being loyal. As such, many questions arise: Does the hope of a supernatural being helpful to Africans? Does the religiosity of Africans account for the reasons they still cannot progress in many matters due to the irrationality that result from belief?Does Africa Need God? Attempts to analyse the problem of religion in Africa and exposes a surprising finding that Africans were cheated by the early missionaries and scholarships to abandon their ways of life and embrace belief systems and a way of life that has held them captive up to this moment. In the end, the book proposes killing of the God idea in Africa. When Africans will abandon the idea of God, they will gain rationality; an important tool that will help them tackle some of their obstacles.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1533619425
• ISBN13: 9781533619426
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.3"