Fr. Zanotelli is an Italian missionary priest who served for many years among the poorest in the poor of a slum in Nairobi. Eventually, he felt "commissioned" by these people to minister and evangelize the members of his "White Tribe," to open their eyes to the history of oppression perpetrated by their European ancestors and continued into the present day--through racism, colonialism, exploitation, and treating the poor world as unworthy of respect or care. That is what he sets out to do in this book.