Dr. Yusufu Turaki is a professor of Theology and Social Ethics at JETS, Jos, Nigeria, and Director of its Centre for the Study of Religion, Church and Society.
He holds a PhD in Social Ethics from Boston University and was a post-doctoral research fellow at Yale Divinity School. He and his wife, Deborah, have four children.
Professor Turaki has written extensively on the subjects of ethics, theology, missions, development, colonialism, Islam, African contemporary socio-political issues and African Traditional Religion and culture.
THE BRITISH COLONIAL LEGACY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA
This book seeks to bring the supreme importance of social ethics and social justice into the centre of Nigerian politics, Nigeria being a segmented and multi-ethnic and multi-religious society.
The Nigerian society needs to be restructured, reordered so as to address the issues of social justice and the existence of structures of inequality, insecurity and incompatibility.
Our supreme task is to reorder and restructure society in such a way that justice becomes the fundamental social principle.
No nation can know and experience peace, unity and stability in the absence of justice. Justice, therefore, is the prerequisite and the basis of peace, unity and stability of any nation, Nigeria is not the exception.
I have approached this study from an interdisciplinary perspective and for this reason, it covers many areas of interest, such as social history, social theory and social ethics; culture and religion; colonialism and missions and political and economic development in nation-state building.
It is my desired hope and prayer that Nigerians will indeed champion the cause of social justice and seek to create and maintain a just social order where no man or woman, ethnic or religious group, section or region is oppressed.
THE TRINITY OF SIN
You cannot kill a tree by cutting off its branches; you need to dig down and cut off its roots.
In this book, Professor Yusufu Turaki uses the Holy Scriptures as spade and axe as he digs down to examine the roots of sin.
His knowledge of traditional African beliefs and value adds depth to his discussion of the origin, nature, effects and power of sin in our lives.
He shows the relevance of each member of the Holy Trinity to our struggle against the root sins of self-centeredness and pride, greed and lust, and anxiety and fear.
Professor Yusufu Turaki helps us to understand how sin affects our relationships with ourselves, with God and with others. More than that, he gives us guidelines for dealing with sin in our lives and in our communities. I commend this book for personal reading and for academic study.
TAINTED LEGACY
In recent years violent attacks by Muslims in Nigeria have left thousands of Christians dead. Much of the conflict has occurred in the Middle Belt, and also in the North where the Church is a small and vulnerable minority.
Islamic sharia is the main source of law in the North, and some Islamists there are calling for the establishment of an Islamic state.
In this important study, Professor Yusufu Turaki traces the origins of the current crisis to the historical impact of Islam on Northern Nigerian society.
He discusses the nature and significance of Islamic colonialism and slavery in West Africa, and how their malign influence was entrenched by the British colonial administration of the twentieth century.
These practices, he argues, have bequeathed a tainted legacy of discrimination and cruelty to the Christians of Northern Nigeria.
I was most impressed by the content of this book. Yusufu Turaki has spoken the truth and supported it by facts. His evidence is indisputable and his analysis accurate. Christians and Muslims in Nigeria can and should work together for the building of the nation and its people on a foundation of truth and to turn its back on its tainted legacy. This book calls for an honest discussion on the issues of the day in Nigeria.
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