PRESS RELEASE
Successful Publication of The Odds of Changing the Ancient Landmark
Oberhausen, Germany – August 2026
World Christian Revival Center International e.V. and the Kingdom Government Advocate Initiative Global are pleased to announce the successful publication and worldwide release of The Odds of Changing the Ancient Landmark: A Call to Restore Order in Families, Churches, and Nations, authored by Bishop Evans Ngozi Izuwa.
The publication marks the culmination of approximately eight years and eight months of intensive research, reflection, writing, and refinement centred on one fundamental question:
What happens when individuals, institutions, and nations abandon the foundational boundaries upon which healthy societies are built?
Drawing its central inspiration from Proverbs 22:28, the book explores the significance of boundaries, values, inheritance, identity, responsibility, and foundational order across family life, faith, culture, leadership, governance, and society.
The book does not argue that everything inherited from the past must remain unchanged. Rather, it calls for wisdom to distinguish between traditions that require reform and foundations that must be preserved.
Its central warning is clear:
Not everything old is sacred, and not everything new is progress.
True transformation requires the courage to confront injustice while preserving the principles that sustain human dignity, responsible leadership, cultural identity, family stability, and social order.
FOREWORD BY PROF. PLO LUMUMBA
The publication carries a distinguished foreword by renowned Kenyan lawyer, scholar, Pan-African public intellectual, and governance advocate Prof. PLO Lumumba.
His contribution strengthens the book’s broader engagement with leadership, cultural identity, responsible governance, generational responsibility, and the future of Africa and the wider world.
The foreword positions the book within an important global conversation concerning how societies can pursue genuine transformation without destroying the foundations that give communities continuity, identity, and direction.
WHY THIS BOOK MATTERS NOW
We are living in a generation characterised by rapid social, political, technological, cultural, and ideological change.
Families are being redefined.
Leadership institutions are being questioned.
Cultural identities are under pressure.
Traditional structures are being reassessed.
Moral boundaries are increasingly contested.
Young generations are searching for identity and direction.
At such a moment, the critical question is not whether society should change.
Society will change.
The critical question is:
Which boundaries should be changed, and which boundaries must be preserved?
The Odds of Changing the Ancient Landmark confronts this question with biblical conviction, historical reflection, cultural awareness, and a call to responsible leadership.
A MESSAGE FOR MORE THAN THE CHURCH
Although deeply rooted in biblical principles, this book addresses a much wider audience.
It speaks to:
Parents and families.
Pastors and church leaders.
Traditional and community leaders.
Educators and academics.
Political and public leaders.
Policymakers.
Young people.
Diaspora communities.
Cultural custodians.
Leadership organisations.
Researchers.
And everyone concerned about the foundations upon which society is built.
Its message crosses the boundaries of religion and enters the wider discussion about leadership, identity, culture, governance, family, inheritance, responsibility, and national transformation.
THE CENTRAL CONVICTION
Progress that destroys its own foundations eventually becomes instability.
Reform that removes injustice is necessary.
But change that destroys identity, responsibility, order, inheritance, and legitimate boundaries can leave generations without direction.
The challenge of leadership is therefore not merely to create change.
It is to discern righteous change.
This book calls families, institutions, churches, cultures, and nations to recover that discernment.
FROM THE AUTHOR
“This book is a call to our generation to understand that progress without foundations can eventually become destruction. We must have the courage to challenge what is wrong, but also the wisdom to preserve what is right. The future of our families, churches, communities and nations depends upon our ability to know the difference.”
Bishop Evans Ngozi Izuwa
MORE THAN EIGHT YEARS IN THE MAKING
The successful publication of The Odds of Changing the Ancient Landmark represents the completion of an extraordinary journey spanning approximately eight years and eight months.
The work developed through years of research, theological reflection, cultural observation, leadership experience, revision, and sustained engagement with questions affecting families, churches, communities, and nations.
Its publication therefore represents more than the release of another title.
It represents the release of a message prepared over many years for a generation confronting major questions about its future.
KEY THEMES OF THE BOOK
Readers will encounter major discussions concerning:
- Divine and societal boundaries
- Family order and generational inheritance
- Cultural identity and preservation
- Leadership and accountability
- Church and spiritual responsibility
- Governance and national development
- The consequences of removing legitimate boundaries
- Reform versus destructive change
- Generational responsibility
- Restoration of order
- Identity and destiny
- The relationship between foundations and sustainable transformation