Introducing African Christian Biography
Journal of African Christian Biography Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jan. ) Focus: African Christian Biography Musicians and Composers: Yared, John Knox Bokwe A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography Journal of African Christian Biography Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jan ) A Publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography With U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University Boston, Massachusetts: Dictionary of African Christian Biography, The Journal of African Christian Biography was launched in to complement and make stories from the on-line Dictionary of African Christian Biography () more readily accessible and immediately useful in African congregations and classrooms. Now published quarterly, with all issues available on line, the intent of the JACB is to promote the research, publication, and use of African Christian biography within Africa by serving as an academically credible but publicly accessible source of information on Christianity across the continent. Content will always include biographies already available in the database itself, but original contributions related to A
Original biographies from the Dictionary of African Christian Biography
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. The editors are pleased to offer the first annual cumulative volume of the Journal of African Christian Biography, the monthly scholarly publication that was launched in June of Since then, the life stories of twelve individuals who played vital roles in and through their faith communities have been published online as free downloads. But it is important that a selection of DACB stories be more readily available to those without access to the internet. As I mentioned in the fall newsletter of the DACB, each issue of the journal is available in its e-journal, on-line version, where it is configured either as A4 or x 11 format printable as booklets, ready for local printing and binding or stapling. Our intention is to make it easy for academics and church leaders in various parts of Africa to make print copies o
Buxton, Thomas Fowell (B)
All articles created or submitted in the first twenty years of the project, from to
Evangelical
Non Africans
Perhaps the most striking of all the monuments and memorials that adorn St. George’s Cathedral in Freetown, Sierra Leone, is a bust commemorating a person who never set foot there. It was set up by Africans in memory of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, described in the language of the times as “the Friend of the Negro.”
Thomas Fowell Buxton [1]–he ordinarily used his second name–was born in , the eldest son of a country gentleman. For a long while he combined a business career with managing his estate. He was brought up under both Anglican and Quaker influences and experienced evangelical conversion through the influence of Josiah Pratt, secretary of the Church Missionary Society. He married into a great Quaker family, the Gurneys (Elizabeth Fry, the prison reformer, was a sister-in-law). In he became Member of Parliament for Weymouth, which he represented until defeated in the election of Serious illness, increasing in later years, punctuated his public activity; he died in , aged
An Evangelical in Politics
Buxton was a public
Dictionary of African Biography
General Editors: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Executive Editor: Steven J. Niven
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From the Pharaohs to Frantz Fanon, the Dictionary of African Biography (DAB) provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of Africans who shaped African history. The project is unprecedented in scale, covering the whole of the continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt (– BCE) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (– BCE), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (–), Miriam Makeba (–), and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (–). Individuals are drawn from all walks of life, including philosophers, politicians, activists, entertainers, scholars, poets, scientists, religious figures, kings, and everyday people whose lives have contributed to Africa’s history. Oxford University Press published the six-volume, entry print edition of the DAB in November That edition was honored with the Library Journal Best Reference Award, General Reference, for
The DAB continues to solicit entries, with a goal of reaching
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