Musama Disco Christo Church: the Ghanaian church founded by a prophet in 1922
Musama Disco Christo Church was founded in 1922 by Joseph William Egyanka Appiah, a Methodist catechist in the Gold Coast who took the name Jemisimiham Jehu-Appiah.…
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African Independent Churches
Isaiah Shembe and the Nazareth Baptist Church: South Africa’s prophet of Ekuphakameni
Isaiah Shembe founded the Nazareth Baptist Church, known as ibandla lamaNazaretha, in KwaZulu-Natal around 1910. Blending Christian faith with Zulu culture, his church grew into one…
Simon Kimbangu: the Congolese prophet jailed for 30 years after five months of ministry
Simon Kimbangu, a Baptist catechist in the Belgian Congo, began a healing ministry in April 1921 that drew huge crowds. Within months the colonial authorities arrested…
The girl in the trance: how Cherubim and Seraphim began in Lagos in 1925
The Cherubim and Seraphim church traces its beginning to June 1925 in Lagos, when the prophet Moses Orimolade Tunolase was called to pray for a teenage…