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Akimini I is a writer, an activist, and a public theologian.

She's finishing a PhD from Westminster Theological Seminary,

and in the last few years, she's been writing on the church and race in America.

My parents are from Nigeria, and so I'm a first generation Nigerian-American.

So that's why I say it's a little complicated on this and that.

So originally from the Bay Area, California girl, lived there from age one to 18,

and then I also lived in L.A. for 12 years because I went to college at Cal State Northridge in Southern California.

Her articles

have appeared in Christianity today at the Reformed African American Network, Christ and Pop Culture,

the Huffington Post, and more. What you get with Akemony is a strong mix. She's bold and prophetic

when it comes to issues of race in America, and she holds deep convictions about reformed theology

and evangelical orthodoxy.

It's a rare combination and one that reaches all the way back to her family's roots.

My mom and dad actually grew up in the same village in Nulakana, Ibasipo, in Nigeria, and they're Ibibio.

So we're from a minority tribe.

They're believers, and actually my grandfather was a Lutheran pastor.

So, you know, there's colonialism and imperialism there.

You know, him knows in the background there.

But, yeah, so he and his church was right there in the village.

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