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Gospel music and Christian news from across Africa, with a focus on Nigeria and Ghana.
Bishop David Oyedepo founded Living Faith Church Worldwide, known as Winners Chapel, in the early 1980s. Its Faith Tabernacle at Canaanland in Ota, dedicated in 1999,…
Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams founded Christian Action Faith Ministries, known as Action Chapel International, in Accra in 1979. He is often described as a father of the…
Augustine was born in 354 in Thagaste, in what is now Algeria. After a restless youth, he converted to Christianity in 386 and became Bishop of…
William Wadé Harris, a Liberian Grebo teacher, began preaching after a vision in prison. In 1913 to 1915 he walked along the coast of Côte d'Ivoire…
Joyous Celebration, the South African gospel choir founded in the mid-1990s, has released a live album almost every year since, selling millions of copies. Its mix…
Philip Quaque was born in Cape Coast around 1741, taken to England as a boy, educated and ordained in 1765, the first African to become a…
Archbishop Desmond Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his opposition to apartheid and chaired South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1996. He…
James McKeown, an Irish missionary, arrived in the Gold Coast in 1937 to work with a young Pentecostal movement. After divisions and a split, the church…
Joseph Ayo Babalola, a steamroller operator with the Public Works Department, led a revival at Oke Ooye in Ilesa in 1930 that drew huge crowds. The…
Samuel Ajayi Crowther was taken as a slave in 1821, freed by the British navy in 1822 and educated in Sierra Leone. He translated the Bible…
