We Are Joseph: What the Striking Similarities between Joseph son of Jacob and African Americans Reveal about the Divine Mission of African Americans in America

We Are Joseph a riveting historic book written by Jean Louis Tailly seeks to find a lasting solution to the ongoing crises in Africa. The book brings to life the hardships humiliation and expected triumphs of broken family relationships poverty hostility and other horrors associated with slavery. It also explores the good that can come out of slavery. The story of Joseph forms the backdrop of this book highlighting Josephs painful separation from his family his life as a slave in a foreign land his eventual rise to power and his reconciliation with his brothers. It describes with striking similarity to the African slavery experience how Joseph represents the people who were forcefully separated from their families and brought to America and into slavery. Now as African Americans they will reconcile with their African brothers and sisters; they will also bring them peace stability and prosperity and will embrace their God-given mission of repairing the psychological sociological and economical damage caused by the Atlantic slave trade.