Dictionary of african christian biography movie

The DACB was born in 1995 at the Overseas Ministries Study Center (OMSC) in New Haven, Connecticut.

Friends of DACB provide crucial support for the work of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography and the Journal by assisting with: film related events.

Documentary film entitled Bishop Kibira of Bukoba: An African Lutheran.

He has recently released his African Christianity Rising documentary film series (plus ancillary educational materials) filmed largely in Ghana and Zimbabwe.

Dictionary of African Christian Biography.

See the entry on Tokunboh Adeyemo in the Dictionary of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography.

A grant from Pew’s Research Enablement Program, administered by OMSC director Gerald Anderson, brought together a group of scholars that included Jonathan J. Bonk (convener), Gerald H. Anderson, Joseph G. Donders, Charles W. Forman, Rosalind I.

J. Hackett, Stephen Peterson, Lamin Sanneh, Francisco J. Silota, and Andrew F. Walls. At the conclusion of the consultation, the creation of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography was announced. The project was to be an open-access online resource that would address not only the need to document the information gap but to make that information readily available to the African and global communities.

The initial website went online in 1998. Michele Sigg joined the work as part-time assistant in 2000 and later became full-time project manager. While the project received funding from private donations, the support of the Overse