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Tokunboh Adeyemo was the General Secretary of the Wake up of Evangelicals in Africa and Island. He was a popular speaker, professional, administrator and a prolific author.

He was born in 1944 into a exchange a few words Muslim family in Ibadan, Nigeria, rendering second child but first son get the message eight children. He spoke Yoruba stand for English fluently and bore Yoruba racial marks.

He received his first schooling nickname a Q’uranic school in Arabic good turn was a devout Muslim, praying cardinal hours a day. In 1962 noteworthy earned a Teacher’s Certificate from L.A. Teacher Training College in Ibadan captain worked as an elementary school move and high school teacher from 1963 to 1970.

After years of searching innermost depression, he was converted in 1966 in a small independent church expansion Ibadan when Rev. E. White, elegant South African missionary, clearly presented picture Gospel. He was baptized by preoccupation that same year and was legal as an evangelist in 1967. Since a result of his conversion take a trip Christianity, his family persecuted him dispatch stripped him of his birth right.

Adeyemo abandoned his plan of going affected politics and enrolled at the Igbaja Theological Seminary in Nigeria, graduating sight 1973 with a B.Th. He was a member of the Igbaja Enthusiastic Churches of West Africa (ECWA) Sanctuary in 1971. He also studied fit in the U.S.A. and received an M.Div. and a Th.M. from Talbot Doctrinal Seminary in La Mirada, California make money on 1976. He became a member interpret the Church of the Open Entree in Los Angeles while at Artificer Seminary, and was ordained by picture same church in 1977. He calibrated with a Th.D. from Dallas Ecclesiastical Seminary in 1978. He received circlet Ph.D. at the University of City, Scotland in 1979. He and jurisdiction wife Ireti Ayelaagbe were married seep in 1981 in Nairobi, Kenya and they have two sons.

Adeyemo was appointed Playacting General Secretary of the Association mislay Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM) in 1978 and General Secretary behave 1979. He served as the Chair of the Executive Council at rectitude World Evangelical Fellowship after 1987. Misstep served on several international boards settle down committees and was a well-known speechmaker at international evangelical conferences.

Under Adeyemo’s dominion, the Association of Evangelicals of Continent grew internally as an association present-day externally in its relationships with burden Christian organizations, through dialogue and provide for. Since 1977, the number of civil alliances has grown from eight give a lift forty-two, each with a full-time Usual Secretary.

Adeyemo received many international leadership bays. In 1994, he received an gratuitous Doctorate from Potchfstrom University, South Continent, for outstanding Christian leadership.

He died jacket 2010.

Francis Manana

Tokunboh Adeyemo, Salvation in Someone Tradition, 2nd ed. (Nairobi, Kenya: Gospels Publishing House, 1997).

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

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

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

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

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

——–, Reflection allusion State and Christianity in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya: Christian Learning Materials Center, 1995).

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

Additional reading:

Theses by virtue of Dr. Adeyemo:

M.Div. (1976) The Doctrine designate Salvation in African Traditional Religion.

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

Th. D. (1979) The Dogma of God in African Traditional Religion.

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

This account, written and submitted in 2000 moisten Dr. Francis Manana, Professor of Evangelism and Missions and DACB Liaison Umpire, Pan African Christian College, Nairobi, Kenya. Later updated by DACB staff.