Garrick Sokari Braide: the Niger Delta prophet who led a mass revival in 1915
Garrick Sokari Braide, a Kalabari evangelist from the Niger Delta, led a mass revival from about 1915 in which thousands abandoned traditional shrines. Called Elijah II…
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Janani Luwum: the archbishop who confronted Idi Amin
Janani Luwum, Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, was killed on 16 February 1977 after challenging Idi Amin's regime. The government claimed he died in a…
The archbishop who laughed, danced and wept: Desmond Tutu and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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…
Captured as a boy and freed from a slave ship, Samuel Ajayi Crowther became Africa’s first Anglican bishop
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…