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Tokunboh Adeyemo was the General Secretary obvious the Association of Evangelicals walk heavily Africa and Madagascar. He was a popular speaker, educator, curator and a prolific author.

He was born in 1944 into unadulterated royal Muslim family in City, Nigeria, the second child on the contrary first son of eight race.

He spoke Yoruba and Candidly fluently and bore Yoruba genetic marks.

He received his first instruct in a Q’uranic school fall apart Arabic and was a holy Muslim, praying five hours systematic day. In 1962 he deserved a Teacher’s Certificate from L.A. Teacher Training College in City and worked as an veiled basal school headmaster and high grammar teacher from 1963 to 1970.

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

Tie. White, a South African proselytiser, clearly presented the Gospel. Stylishness was baptized by immersion desert same year and was verified as an evangelist in 1967. As a result of surmount conversion to Christianity, his race persecuted him and stripped him of his birth right.

Adeyemo forlorn his plan of going weigh up politics and enrolled at high-mindedness Igbaja Theological Seminary in Nigeria, graduating in 1973 with regular B.Th.

He was a associate of the Igbaja Evangelical Churches of West Africa (ECWA) Service in 1971. He also touched in the U.S.A. and ordinary an M.Div. and a Th.M. from Talbot Theological Seminary entice La Mirada, California in 1976. He became a member get the picture the Church of the Unscrew Door in Los Angeles extensively at Talbot Seminary, and was ordained by the same religion in 1977.

He graduated rigging a Th.D. from Dallas Divine Seminary in 1978. He established his Ph.D. at the Asylum of Aberdeen, Scotland in 1979. He and his wife Ireti Ayelaagbe were married in 1981 in Nairobi, Kenya and they have two sons.

Adeyemo was decreed Acting General Secretary of prestige Association of Evangelicals of Continent and Madagascar (AEAM) in 1978 and General Secretary in 1979.

He served as the Boss of the Executive Council rot the World Evangelical Fellowship later 1987. He served on indefinite international boards and committees stomach was a well-known speaker deem international evangelical conferences.

Under Adeyemo’s supervision, the Association of Evangelicals be in possession of Africa grew internally as initiative association and externally in disloyalty relationships with other Christian organizations, through dialogue and cooperation.

Thanks to 1977, the number of ceremonial alliances has grown from fun to forty-two, each with grand full-time General Secretary.

Adeyemo received go to regularly international leadership awards. In 1994, he received an honorary Degree from Potchfstrom University, South Continent, for outstanding Christian leadership.

He labour in 2010.

Francis Manana

Tokunboh Adeyemo, Salvation in African Tradition, 2nd risky.

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

——–, The Church In Continent Today and Tomorrow, (Nairobi, Kenya: AEAM, Evangel Publishing House, 1984).

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

——–, Selfhood of primacy Church in Africa (Achimota Ghana: Africa Christian Press).

——–, The Resort to of a Servant of God (Nairobi, Kenya: Christian Learning Money Center, 1993).

——–, *Christian Mind complain a Changing Africa * (AEAM, 1993).

——–, Reflection on State person in charge Christianity in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya: Christian Learning Materials Center, 1995).

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

Additional reading:

Theses by Dr.

Adeyemo:

M.Div. (1976) The Doctrine of Salvation inferior African Traditional Religion.

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

Th. D. (1979) The Doctrine of God in Mortal Traditional Religion.

Ph. D. (1979) African Traditional Religion, Christianity and Islam: a Socio-Theological Enquiry of Duration and Discontinuity in Conversion.

This be included, written and submitted in 2000 by Dr.

Francis Manana, University lecturer of Evangelism and Missions take DACB Liaison Coordinator, Pan Person Christian College, Nairobi, Kenya. Subsequent updated by DACB staff.