Why Are You Killing Me?: Africa's Lament
Africa is the richest continent on earth and its children are starving. In Why Are You Killing Me? Africa's Lament, Owino Brian gives the continent itself a voice to speak directly about what its own leaders and its own churches are doing to the people born on its soil. Drawing on real and verified data, the book confronts the political leaders who borrowed billions in the people's name and built nothing, leaving fifty-three percent of Africa's poorest nations in high debt distress according to the World Bank's 2025 Africa Pulse report while forty-two million people in the Horn of Africa faced crisis-level hunger in the same year. It confronts the prosperity gospel preachers who filled the vacuum that governance left behind, selling flood prophecies and rapture dates and miracle arks to desperate young people who sold their land and their motorcycles and their savings in exchange for the feeling of being chosen. It names the wars that African leaders are running against their own populations, from Sudan's civil war that has killed more than thirty thousand people since 2023 to the M23 executions of three hundred and nineteen civilians near Virunga in July 2025. And through all of it, Africa speaks as a mother who is ancient and wounded and still full of love for the children who are killing her, begging them to open the gates of the abundance she prepared for all of them, to put down the whip, to count the votes honestly, to return to the simple gospel, and to choose their people before there is no one left to choose.
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