The Crooked Society alone as the title of the book, even before reading the content, is already a bonus to the writer. It is said that good things just don’t happen, they are made to happen. The writer passionately narrates the ordeal the current generations of people are going through in search of insatiable power, status, and wealth and in the spirit of the end justifies the means. Putting it within the new statement going around in our current political environment “hatupangwingwi”, literally meaning “nobody can plan for us” denoting the spirit of stubbornness, arrogance, and pride, the writer looks at the society through the lens of a concerned patriotic and God-fearing person who prophesies that unless things change, then Armageddon is nigh.
This is a book that one can read and feel the soul of our current social environment which stinks to the bone and marrow. This is the tale of a wasted society lacking God-fearing leadership. It is a society where total decorum has been thrown out of the window, and its place is taken over by vindictiveness, economic thuggery, shortage of integrity, and demonic religiosity. According to the author, the conscience of the society and the church, has been irredeemably paralyzed and everlastingly blinded by the prosperity gospel, hence compromising the socio-political, financial, and spiritual terrain of our institutions. The integrity of our society is on trial indeed and the moral authority of our leaders, both secular and theocratic, is stained.
This is a masterpiece kind of a book that drives one crazy in search of a solution to the fast-decaying environment. The seductive sensation the book brings to the heart and the passionate appeal it provokes to the mind make every chapter a must-read. Every chapter leaves you thirsty for more. The author drives hope as an instrument of a responsible society and faith in God as a menu for a better future. This is a wake-up call to all men and women there who have a heart for progressive humanity to take a practical role in re-engineering this society to be a responsible society for a better future where morality is the meal for our stomach, integrity is the blood for our hearts and fear of God is our oxygen for survival. If that is not done, then we are soon going to live in an unfamiliar ecosystem controlled by the law of the jungle. Remember dinosaurs used to be part of our ecosystem and due to their uncontrollable taste for destruction, they became extinct. Humanity will face the same fate if we do not redeem our discipline and responsibility. It is an eye opening, straight shooting, and insightful book. I hope it will open the eyes of humanity.
It is said that literature is the mirror of the society (fasihi ni kioo cha jamii). The saying has even a greater spark if the author of the literature is reflecting his/her life personal experiences. That is what I find most captivating in the book “The Crooked Society” – for the testimony is nothing but inspiring the read to true christian living! With bare-knuckle exposition, the author of the “The Crooked Society” has managed to depict how with every passage of time and/or generation, the society is getting more and more inclined to egoism that slowly is elevating individual chauvinism at the expense of the greater good of the masses hence dimming the ‘Christ-like’ image that we as the society popularly proclaim we are. It is indeed a retrospective master-piece intended to drive the reader back to the true meaning and way of life of a christian, Ebenezer.