This article reviews the Africa Bible Commentary, edited by Tokunboh Adeyemo and published by Word Alive and Zondervan (1586 pages, hardback, 2006).

On Monday, 19th June 2006, in Cape Town, South Africa, the Africa Bible Commentary was officially launched on African soil. By a number of strange providential happenings, I happened to find myself there among a small group of guests. Pieter Kwant, the International Programme Director of Langham Partnership International (UK), who co-sponsored this project, gave a short history of the exciting events that led to the birth of this $1.2 million commentary project. The General Editor of the commentary, Tokunboh Adeyemo, used the story in Acts 8 of the Ethiopian eunuch asking Philip about the man in Isaiah 53 to tell us that many other Africans asking similar questions would now have their questions answered by this new commentary. He was, however, quick to warn us against any over-optimistic about this book project because of the now familiar adage, “If you want to hide something from an African, put it in a book!”