Ephraim Amu: the church musician dismissed for wearing African cloth
Ephraim Amu, composer of the patriotic song "Yen Ara Asase Ni", was dismissed from the Presbyterian training college at Akropong in 1933. His insistence on African…
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Kwame Bediako: the Ghanaian theologian who said Christianity had come home to Africa
Kwame Bediako (1945 to 2008) was a Ghanaian theologian and founding rector of the Akrofi-Christaller Institute at Akropong. He argued that Christianity was not a foreign…
An African official reads Isaiah in his chariot: Philip and the Ethiopian in Acts 8
In Acts 8, an angel sends the evangelist Philip to a desert road, where he meets an Ethiopian official, treasurer to Queen Candace, reading Isaiah in…
From the Christ Embassy choir to FreeNation: Nigerian gospel singer Ada Ehi
Ada Ehi, born Ada Ogochukwu Ndukauba in 1983, sang in the Believers Loveworld campus fellowship and the Christ Embassy choir before joining the FreeNation record label…
From Tamale to Gospel Artiste of the Year: Piesie Esther’s long road
Piesie Esther, born Esther Owusu in Tamale in 1981 and raised in Nsuta-Atonsu in the Ashanti Region, released her debut album Apae Ama Me in 2002.…
More than 350 Yoruba film soundtracks and a gospel career: Tope Alabi
Tope Alabi, born in Lagos in 1970, is one of Nigeria's best-known Yoruba gospel singers. She built her career composing soundtracks for Yoruba films, with more…
Fifteen members in a Korle Bu classroom: how Dag Heward-Mills started Lighthouse Chapel International
In 1987, Dag Heward-Mills, then a medical student, started Lighthouse Chapel International in a classroom at the School of Hygiene in Korle Bu, Accra, with about…
Fifteen students in a lecturer’s flat in 1973: how William Kumuyi’s Bible study became Deeper Life
In 1973, William Folorunso Kumuyi, a mathematics lecturer at the University of Lagos, started a Bible study with a small group of students in his flat.…
White garments and bare feet: how the Celestial Church of Christ began in Porto-Novo in 1947
The Celestial Church of Christ was founded in Porto-Novo, then in Dahomey and now in Benin, in 1947 by Samuel Bilewu Oshoffa, a carpenter who said…
Kidnapped as a child, he bought his freedom and wrote a bestseller against slavery: Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano said he was born in Igbo land and kidnapped as a child. He was enslaved, bought his freedom in 1766, became a Christian and,…