Author: Deji Okegbile

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.  – Chinua Achebe Africa, an enormous continent is the cradle of humanity and civilisation from the dawn of human time in prehistoric Africa to the development of the Stone Age technology. Africa is a continent of ‘Come and See’ a Nathaniel proverbial response especially to those saying ‘can anything good come...

“And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it” -1 Corinth 12:26 Christian persecution is increasing around the globe and most especially in China where Christian persecution is becoming most severe because of the surging popularity of the non-state-approved churches. Christianity is the newest growing missional and social movement within China hence, the church growth ‘has alarmed the ruling Communist Party, wary of any threats to its control.’ China is officially atheist, but millions of Christians, Buddhists and Muslims worship in government-controlled buildings. Our brothers and sisters...

‘Evil is walking openly in our land, and around the world’ – Rebecca Brown There is the battle that is being fought daily over our physical and spiritual lives in Nigeria and this calls us to think of our choices and consequences. The question is, what are the “doorways” Satan is using to bring demonic destruction, perpetuates circle and harvest of death in Nigeria? It is all over the news that Nigeria entered the New Year with hope and prayers; but it has turned out that across the country from Kaduna, Rivers, Benue, and Kwara states is nothing but...