A Message from Our Founder

For more than two decades, I carried an unspoken longing—a quiet call to restore truth, identity, and memory. My life has been shaped by movement, by service, by uprooting and re-rooting, and by the persistent conviction that Africa’s story in Scripture has not been told with the honor it deserves.

I grew up hearing a version of biblical history that was incomplete. Africa was present, yet unnamed. Influential, yet dismissed. Central, yet pushed to the margins. But the more I studied, traveled, observed, and prayed, the more I understood that this absence was not accidental—it was inherited, repeated, and accepted without question.

My journey into this work has never been purely academic. It has been personal, spiritual, ancestral, and at times overwhelming. I have lived through poverty, served in a war, motherhood, career shifts, and seasons of deep internal searching. And through it all, one truth kept echoing back to me:

and restoring that truth restores people.**

The turning point came during my travels through Egypt—standing along the Nile, walking through temples and early Christian sites, standing where ancient believers once stood. Strangers asked about my studies. Locals spoke to me about scholars like Dr. Ben, whose work uplifted African Americans and supported communities in Aswan. In those moments, I felt the weight and beauty of continuity: the past speaking to the present, reminding me that identity is not lost—it is remembered.

Roots of Faith Academy was born out of that remembrance.

It is a home for study, restoration, and truth-telling.
A place where African-centered biblical history is taught with dignity, clarity, and scholarship.
A place for those who long to understand Scripture in its original cultural context.
A place where seekers, believers, researchers, and everyday people can finally see themselves reflected in the story.

I honor the scholars who came before me, but my mission is different:
to teach with calm, grounded scholarship; to avoid unnecessary battles;
and to illuminate what has always been there—without sensationalism, without strain.

This work is bigger than a single course.
It is a restoration.

A restoration of Africa’s presence in the Bible.
A restoration of identity for those who have felt disconnected.
A restoration of dignity for communities that have been taught to forget their place in sacred history.

Roots of Faith Academy is my offering—
to my community, to my ancestors, to my children,
and to everyone searching for what was lost.

Every lesson, every video, and every word I share is guided by:

❤️ Integrity

❤️ Scholarly depth

❤️ Spiritual grounding

❤️ Cultural pride

This is sacred work.

And if you are here, you are part of that work.

May your studies here bring clarity, confidence, and a deeper sense of who you are and where you come from.

— Antoinette Lee

Founder, Roots of Faith Academy