Blacks Shouldn’t Worship A White God – Rocky Dawuni

Ghanaian music legend and Grammy-nominated artist Rocky Dawuni has shared powerful thoughts on spirituality, African identity, and Black consciousness, calling on Africans to see and worship God through the lens of their own culture and ancestry.

According to Dawuni, it is inconsistent for Africans to believe they are created in God’s image yet worship a version of God that looks nothing like them.

“I believe that if God created man in His own image, you can’t be a Black man and worship a white God,” he said during an interview with Bola Ray on Starr 103.5 FM on Thursday, July 17, 2025.

He explained that people naturally relate to God through the image of their own identity.

“The white man will worship God in the white image. So the sense of elevating the identity of me as a Black man, me as an African, was a very key part of my kind of projection… and then the message aspect of my music,” he added.

Dawuni said his spiritual journey began at a very young age. Growing up in military barracks, he formed a small church at age seven. He and his friends built the structure using palm fronds and gathered regularly for Bible readings.

“Every night I read the Bible… I actually started a church when I was a kid in the barrack,” he recalled.

“I was, like, 7 years old… I got all the kids to go and cut palm fronds, and they built the church in the back.”

He also attended catechism classes in the Catholic Church, but as he grew older, his spiritual views expanded. His music has taken him around the world to holy sites such as the Vatican, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Well of Souls, and the Wailing Wall.

“My music is informed by spirituality. Spirituality is finding wherever God manifested in God’s diversity. And I try to find God. That’s why when I see everybody, it’s like my brother. I don’t see tribal differences. I don’t see racial differences. I don’t see national differences because I see God in everybody,” Dawuni explained

For Dawuni, music is more than just art, it is a spiritual journey that connects people beyond borders, races, or religions.