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    ISBN: 9781783687060
    Imprint: Langham Global Library
    Format: Paperback
    Dimensions (mm): 229 x 152 x 17
    Publication Date: 14/10/2019
    Pages: 320
    Language: English

    African Christian Leadership

    Realities, Opportunities, and Impact

    Edited By
    Robert Priest
    and
    Kirimi Barine

    £19.99

    Do you wish you had a better understanding of the issues and questions African Christians face as they seek to live out their faith in their cultural context? Do you wonder how Africans themselves frame these questions and their answers? Would you like access to actual research that can confirm your own experience or bring new information to your attention that would deepen and broaden your understanding?

    This unique book, the product of a multiyear study and survey sponsored by the Tyndale House Foundation, offers insights into all these questions and more. Featuring input from over 8,000 African survey participants and 57 in-depth interviews, it provides invaluable insight and concise analysis of the dynamics of the development of African Christian leaders today.

    For more information about the study project visit www.africaleadershipstudy.org.

    Author Bios

    Robert Priest
    (Edited By)

    Robert J. Priest is G. W. Aldeen Professor of International Studies and professor of mission and anthropology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and holds the PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. He is former president of both the American Society of Missiology (2013-14) and the Evangelical Missiological Society (2015-17). His research and writing have included a focus on race and ethnicity,sexuality, short-term missions, religious conversion, and witchcraft accusations.Among his publications is This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith, edited with Alvaro L. Nieves (Oxford, 2007).

    Kirimi Barine
    (Edited By)

    Kirimi Barine is an author, trainer, publisher, and consultant. He has served and continues to serve in various leadership capacities for organizations in Africa and around the world. He is the founding director of Publishing Institute of Africa, a Nairobi-based publishing, training, and author-development organization. He has authored or co-authored several books, among them Transformational Corporate Leadership (2010). Barine delights in training and facilitation of learning experiences as well as consulting on leadership, publishing, and writing. He holds the PhD and doctorate in business administration (with emphasis on leadership and governance) offered jointly and as a dual-degree program by SMC University, Switzerland, and Universidad Central de Nicaragua.

    Endorsements

    Illuminating and stimulating, this book helps us to understand why and how effective African Christian organizations and their leaders make a significant impact in their local context. It also challenges us to think strategically how best to invest in effective leadership in Africa.
    —Daniel Bourdanné, Secretary General, International Fellowship of Evangelical Students

    This fine book takes into account three major linguistic groups in Africa, and provides a qualitative perspective with good statistics to guide any Christian leader searching for better leadership or undertaking research in the domain.
    —Joanna Ilboudo, Executive Secretary, Pan African Christian Women Alliance

    In an age when African Christian growth is obvious but detailed insights into that growth are too rare, these essays disclose aspects of the processes forming effective African Christian leaders and the important roles such leaders can play.
    —Paul V. Kollman, CSC, President, American Society of Missiology

    The vast amounts of data undergirding this book yield tools of assessment and application for pastors, donors, universities, and governments.
    — Miriam Adeney, author, Kingdom Without Borders: The Untold Story of Global Christianity

    Table of Contents

    1. Acknowledgments
    2. Acronyms
    3. Foreword
      Tite Tiénou
    4. Contributors
    5. 1. The Genesis and Growth of the Africa Christian Leadership Study
      Robert J. Priest
    6. 2. Characteristics of Influential African Christian Leaders
      David K. Ngaruiya
    7. 3. Formation of African Christian Leaders: Patterns from the ALS Data
      Wanjiru M. Gitau
    8. 4. Connected—The Role of Social Capital for Leaders with Impact
      Steven D. H. Rasmussen
    9. 5. Leadership Responses during Armed Conflict
      Elisabet le Roux and Yolande Sandoua
    10. 6. Word and Deed—Patterns of Influential African Christian Organizations
      Nupanga Weanzana
    11. 7. African Christian Organizations and Socioeconomic Development
      Michael Bowen
    12. 8. African Women’s Leadership—Realities and Opportunities
      Truphosa Kwaka-Sumba and Elisabet le Roux
    13. 9. Empowering Leadership—A New Dawn in African Christian Leadership
      H. Jurgens Hendriks
    14. 10. Reading and Leading—Challenges for African Christian Leaders
      Robert J. Priest, Kirimi Barine, and Alberto Lucamba Salombongo
    15. 11. Developing Transformational Leaders—Curricula Implications from the Africa Leadership Study
      John Jusu
    16. 12. Engaging Africa—The Tyndale House Foundation’s Story
      Mary Kleine Yehling
    17. Conclusion: Lessons Learned through the Africa Leadership Study
    18. Appendix A: ALS Purpose Statements
    19. Appendix B: ALS Survey Results
    20. Appendix C: Africa Leadership Study: A Seedbed Resource: Website and Forum
    21. Index

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