This intimate biography of the late Kwame Bediako, considered by many “one of the greatest African Christian thinkers” (Vinay Samuel, Oxford) carries important lessons about how the Christian faith is fruitfully planted and grown in African soil. They are illuminated by Kwame’s brilliant reflections on the subject, shaped by his great teacher, Andrew Walls—who reflects on Kwame’s life in the film—and also by profoundly moving moments in his own life journey. When studying literature in France in the 1960’s, for example, and in the grip of a personal crisis, he finds himself awakened from his drift into Western atheism to experience God’s loving and redeeming presence, helping him recover, as he puts it movingly, “my African sense of the wholeness of life” and become “more African than I think I was . . . more who I am!”

The film also portrays the legacy Kwame leaves behind, in those he's mentored and taught, and, above all, in his Akrofi-Christaller Institute for Theology, Mission and Culture, a remarkably unique educational institution based in the historic buildings of the Basel Mission in Ghana’s provincial capital of Akropong, providing opportunities for profoundly deep cross-cultural study in a vibrant and loving Christian community.