Review of Poverty, the Bible and Africa: Contextual Foundations for Helping the Poor by Isaac Boaheng

Isaac Boaheng (PhD) holds a PhD from University of the Free State and a MTh from South African Theological Seminary (SATS). He lectures at the Christian Service University, Ghana in Theology and Christian Ethics and lectures part-time at SATS. Boaheng also serves as a Bible translator with the Bible Society of Ghana and as an Ordained Minister of the Methodist Church Ghana serving the Nsima Circuit of the Kumasi North Diocese. Boaheng has over 100 publications in Theology and other related fields. If visiting Africa, one cannot help but be dumbfounded by the expansive, complicated, and entrenched poverty that confronts the traveller. Much aid has been given and ink has been spilled assessing the problem of poverty, its causes, and offering solutions often from a Western perspective. However, Boaheng’s book, Poverty, The Bible, and Africa, approaches the problem from a holistic perspective by seeking a contextualized African Christian theology of poverty from which to offer practical biblical solutions within the current African context to reduce this continent-wide problem (1–3).