God as a Weapon: Religious Imperialism in Africa

By Dr. Mwinmaalu A Somdah

Why do millions of Africans pray in the language of those who enslaved them? Why do so many feel shame toward their own ancestral traditions while defending, with passion, identities imposed on them by force? God as a Weapon answers these questions with rigor and without complacency.

This book exposes a hidden history: for centuries, two imperialisms - Western Christianity and Arab Islam - used religion as a deliberate instrument of conquest, not of souls alone, but of minds, cultures, and identities. From the colonial missions of the nineteenth century to the Wahhabi petrodollars funding mosques across the Sahel today, from the evangelical megachurches of Lagos to the anti-LGBT laws exported to Uganda by American preachers - the machinery of religious domination never stopped. It simply reinvented itself.

Drawing on ten centuries of history and the geopolitics of the present, God as a Weapon maps the mechanisms of this "colonization of souls," compares Africa's experience with those of Japan, India, Korea, and the Americas, and charts the concrete projects of a spiritual renaissance already stirring among African youth.

This is not an attack on faith. It is a defense of freedom - the most intimate freedom of all: the freedom to choose one's own gods without shame, without coercion, and without serving the interests of a foreign power.

A bold, rigorous, and necessary essay.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H87CG2LK
• ISBN13: 9798184476476
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"