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…
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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…
A steamroller driver left his job after hearing a call. The 1930 Ilesa revival led by Joseph Ayo Babalola
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…