Africa Bears Witness

KYAMA MUGAMBI, PhD (Kenya / USA) is assistant professor of World Christianity at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut. He was previously at Africa International University, where he has been serving as a senior researcher and faculty member at the university’s Centre for World Christianity. He specializes in ecclesial, social, cultural, theological, and epistemological themes within African urban Christianity. His 2020 book, A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya, which traces the history of Pentecostalism in Kenya, has been hailed as a singular contribution to the fields of mission studies, world Christianity, and intercultural theology. He also served as the editorial manager of African Theological Network Press, an initiative advancing theological discourse among academics and church workers. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography [www.dacb.org] and Missio Africanus. He remains connected to the local church having served as a pastor for more than 20 years.

J. N. J. (Klippies) Kritzinger is an emeritus professor of missiology at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He was dean of the faculty of theology and religious studies at UNISA from 1999 to 2001, and editor of Missionalia from 1992 to 2009. He is an emeritus minister of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA), which he served from 1993 to 2015. He is involved in the Northern Theological Seminary in Pretoria, which equips ministers for the URCSA.

J. KWABENA ASAMOAH-GYADU, PhD, is the President of the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Ghana. He is also the Seminary’s professor of contemporary African Christianity and Pentecostal theology. Prof. Asamoah-Gyadu is from Ghana, and has published widely on the intersection between contemporary expressions of Christianity and new trends in missiology in Africa.

J. Frederick Marais, PhD, is South African, and an ordained pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, having served in two congregations for more than fifteen years. Dr. Marais is the director for theological education for the Dutch Reformed Church at the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He helped found the South African Partnership for Missional Churches. He researches and has written several books on missional theology and ecclesiology, and is also involved with the Andrew Murray Centre for Spirituality in Wellington, South Africa.

Elias O. Opongo SJ, PhD, is a lecturer at Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations, Hekima University College, Kenya. Rev. Dr. Opongo is also the director of the Centre for Research, Training, and Publication at Hekima. He researches and teaches transitional justice, social ethics, post- conflict reconstruction, community peacebuilding, religious extremism, extractive industries, and conflict.

Rowanne Sarojini Marie holds a PhD in Theology and Development from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa. She is passionate aboutissues of development, gender justice, and ministerial formation. Dr. Marie, a South African, is the President of the Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary (SMMS) in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Ignatius Wilhelm (Naas) Ferreira, PhD, is South African and a senior lecturer at North West University, South Africa.

Joseph Bosco Bangura, PhD, is a senior researcher in missiology and African Pentecostalism at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Belgium. Dr. Bangura also teaches at the Protestant Theological University, Groningen, Netherlands. He grew up in Sierra Leone, and currently lives and works in Belgium.

Chammah J. Kaunda, PhD, is a Zambian scholar working as assistant professor at the United Graduate School of Theology, Yonsei University, South Korea. He is also Extraordinary Professor in the department of religion and theology at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Dr. Kaunda has authored scores of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on Christianity in Africa.

Peter Maribei is originally from Kenya, and currently serves as the associate director of education abroad at Miami University, Ohio, USA. Dr. Maribei has been engaged in leadership development initiatives at a missions agency and in church plants across Eastern and Southern Africa. He has a PhD in Leadership Studies from University of San Diego, California, USA.

William O. Obaga is a Kenyan church historian, church musician, choral conductor, composer, and musicologist. He holds a PhD in church history from Luther Seminary, Minnesota, USA. He is the associate director for Africa at the World Mission Prayer League, Minnesota, USA, Nairobi.

Joseph Ola has a DTh from University of Roehampton, UK, and is a pastor and editor at The Apolistic Church (LAWNA), UK. He is the founder of Alive Mentorship Group, an online mentoring platform for young adults with membership spanning over sixty nationalities, and he also serves on the board of Missio Africanus. He comes from Nigeria.

Linda Ochola-Adolwa is a Kenyan ordained Anglican minister and serves as the executive director of Hatua Trust, a faith-based organization whose mission is to catalyze Christians for social transformation. She has a PhD from Fuller Seminary, California, USA, and works as church partnership coordinator with International Justice Mission, Kenya.

Kimberly Hill is a historian of in African American missions and Black internationalism. She is an associate professor of US and African American history at the University of Texas, USA, and the author of A Higher Mission: The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa (University Press of Kentucky, 2020). Her PhD is from the University of North Carolina, USA.

Angus Crichton, PhD, is from the UK and has spent the last twenty years learning about Christianity in Africa, particularly Uganda. Dr. Crichton taught in a theological college and has developed a publishing initiative with Ugandan colleagues. He is a research associate at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, UK.

Jean Luc Enyegue, SJ obtained his STL in systematic theology from Boston College School of Theology, and his PhD in church history from Boston University, Massachusetts, USA. Originally from Cameroon, Rev. Dr. Enyegue teaches church history at Hekima University College, Nairobi, Kenya. He is Director of the Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa (JHIA) also based in Nairobi, Kenya.