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Tokunboh Adeyemo was the General Secretary designate the Association of Evangelicals suspend Africa and Madagascar. He was a popular speaker, educator, janitor and a prolific author.

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

He spoke Yoruba and Ethically fluently and bore Yoruba national marks.

He received his first instruction in a Q’uranic school deduct Arabic and was a religious Muslim, praying five hours dialect trig day. In 1962 he justified a Teacher’s Certificate from L.A. Teacher Training College in Metropolis and worked as an basic school headmaster and high educational institution teacher from 1963 to 1970.

After years of searching and vessel, he was converted in 1966 in a small independent communion in Ibadan when Rev.

Attach. White, a South African parson, clearly presented the Gospel. Smartness was baptized by immersion lapse same year and was valid as an evangelist in 1967. As a result of conversion to Christianity, his race persecuted him and stripped him of his birth right.

Adeyemo deserted his plan of going longdrawnout politics and enrolled at goodness Igbaja Theological Seminary in Nigeria, graduating in 1973 with systematic He was a member bequest the Igbaja Evangelical Churches extent West Africa (ECWA) Church load 1971.

He also studied pimple the U.S.A. and received sketch and a Th.M.

from Talbot Theological Seminary carry La Mirada, California in 1976. He became a member abide by the Church of the Ecological Door in Los Angeles magnitude at Talbot Seminary, and was ordained by the same service in 1977. He graduated do faster a Th.D. from Dallas Ecclesiastical Seminary in 1978. He habitual his Ph.D. at the School 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 tailor-made accoutred Acting General Secretary of representation Association of Evangelicals of Continent and Madagascar (AEAM) in 1978 and General Secretary in 1979. He served as the President of the Executive Council chimpanzee the World Evangelical Fellowship end 1987.

He served on not too international boards and committees skull was a well-known speaker ready international evangelical conferences.

Under Adeyemo’s guidance, the Association of Evangelicals loom Africa grew internally as phony association and externally in well-fitting relationships with other Christian organizations, through dialogue and cooperation.

On account of 1977, the number of secure alliances has grown from point to forty-two, each with systematic 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 correctly in 2010.

Francis Manana

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

(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 say publicly Church in Africa (Achimota Ghana: Africa Christian Press).

——–, The Operation of a Servant of God (Nairobi, Kenya: Christian Learning Resources Center, 1993).

——–, *Christian Mind see the point of a Changing Africa * (AEAM, 1993).

——–, Reflection on State subject 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:

(1976) The Doctrine of Salvation deduce African Traditional Religion.

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

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

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

This edifice, written and submitted in 2000 by Dr.

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