The subject is really interesting but I was confused in how the story was told and I had difficulty to follow it. I would have loved to give more stars to this book, but it didn't really work for me. Thank you Penguin General UK for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

Captured by Malian slave traders at the age of 13, the man who eventually becomes Samuel Crowther, minister and abolitionist was once the boy Ajayi raised to revere the gods of his traditional Yoruba religion. This is the fascinating story of his personal journey from one to the other.

This provides a unique insight into a cultural that few of us are familiar with, and a life that was truly exceptional. How an animist child grew - through a trial by fire - to become the first African Bishop of the Church of England is a moving, harrowing and in many ways almost unbelievable story. Worth a read, it gets 3.5 stars.