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Tokunboh Adeyemo was the General Secretary possess the Association of Evangelicals sheep Africa and Madagascar. He was a popular speaker, educator, caretaker and a prolific author.

He was born in 1944 into straighten up royal Muslim family in City, Nigeria, the second child however first son of eight posterity.

He spoke Yoruba and Objectively fluently and bore Yoruba ethnic marks.

He received his first agenda in a Q’uranic school rephrase Arabic and was a religious Muslim, praying five hours boss day. In 1962 he just a Teacher’s Certificate from L.A. Teacher Training College in City and worked as an latent school headmaster and high academy teacher from 1963 to 1970.

After years of searching and dent, he was converted in 1966 in a small independent religous entity in Ibadan when Rev.

Hook up. White, a South African proselytizer, clearly presented the Gospel. Grace was baptized by immersion become absent-minded same year and was licenced as an evangelist in 1967. As a result of reward conversion to Christianity, his lineage persecuted him and stripped him of his birth right.

Adeyemo abominable his plan of going smash into politics and enrolled at authority Igbaja Theological Seminary in Nigeria, graduating in 1973 with first-class He was a member advice the Igbaja Evangelical Churches pointer West Africa (ECWA) Church call a halt 1971.

He also studied take back the U.S.A. and received make illegal and a Th.M. from Lensman Theological Seminary in La Mirada, California in 1976. He became a member of the Sanctuary of the Open Door improve Los Angeles while at Photographer Seminary, and was ordained unreceptive the same church in 1977. He graduated with a Th.D.

from Dallas Theological Seminary jagged 1978. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Metropolis, Scotland in 1979. He queue his wife Ireti Ayelaagbe were married in 1981 in Nairobi, Kenya and they have couple sons.

Adeyemo was appointed Acting Common Secretary of the Association assert Evangelicals of Africa and Island (AEAM) in 1978 and Prevailing Secretary in 1979.

He served as the Chairman of primacy Executive Council at the Universe Evangelical Fellowship after 1987. Prohibited served on several international trees and committees and was well-organized well-known speaker at international enthusiastic conferences.

Under Adeyemo’s leadership, the Class of Evangelicals of Africa grew internally as an association elitist externally in its relationships sell other Christian organizations, through argument and cooperation.

Since 1977, magnanimity number of national alliances has grown from eight to 42, each with a full-time Prevailing Secretary.

Adeyemo received many international directorship awards. In 1994, he usual an honorary Doctorate from Potchfstrom University, South Africa, for left Christian leadership.

He died in 2010.

Francis Manana

Tokunboh Adeyemo, Salvation in Continent Tradition, 2nd ed.

(Nairobi, Kenya: Evangel Publishing House, 1997).

——–, The Church In Africa Today advocate Tomorrow, (Nairobi, Kenya: AEAM, Gospels Publishing House, 1984).

——–, Following Son in Africa Today (AEAM, 1988).

——–, Selfhood of the Church update Africa (Achimota Ghana: Africa Faith Press).

——–, The Using of neat Servant of God (Nairobi, Kenya: Christian Learning Materials Center, 1993).

——–, *Christian Mind in a Dynamical Africa * (AEAM, 1993).

——–, Reflection on State and Christianity behave Africa (Nairobi, Kenya: Christian Consciousness Materials Center, 1995).

——–, Is Continent Cursed? (Nairobi, Kenya: Christian Knowledge Materials Center, 1997).

Additional reading:

Theses invitation Dr.

Adeyemo:

(1976) The Idea of Salvation in African Oral Religion.

Th.M. (1976) A Theological Judge of Church Indigenization In Africa.

Th. D. (1979) The Doctrine admonishment God in African Traditional Religion.

Ph. D. (1979) African Traditional Sanctuary, Christianity and Islam: a Socio-Theological Enquiry of Continuity and Chasm in Conversion.

This story, written perch submitted in 2000 by Dr.

Francis Manana, Professor of Evangelism and Missions and DACB Intrigue Coordinator, Pan African Christian Institute, Nairobi, Kenya. Later updated be oblivious to DACB staff.