Tokunboh adeyemo biography of william

Tokunboh Adeyemo was the General Secretary of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa and Madagascar.

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He was a popular speaker, educator, administrator and a prolific author.

He was born in into a royal Muslim family in Ibadan, Nigeria, the second child but first son of eight children. He spoke Yoruba and English fluently and bore Yoruba tribal marks.

He received his first schooling in a Q’uranic school in Arabic and was a devout Muslim, praying five hours a day.

In he earned a Teacher’s Certificate from L.A. Teacher Training College in Ibadan and worked as an elementary school headmaster and high school teacher from to

After years of searching and depression, he was converted in in a small independent church in Ibadan when Rev. E. White, a South African missionary, clearly presented the Gospel.

He was baptized by immersion that same year and was licensed as an evangelist in As a result of his conversion to Christianity, his family persecuted him and s