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Who Is This Joseph Ayo Babalola - Biography by Hier(m): 1:11pm On Sep 22, 2017 |
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Link1 Leader in the Aladura religious movement. He was born into a Christian family in a small town in the Ilorin district of Nigeria. After attending school in Lagos he became a steam-roller driver for the highways department. One day in 1928 his roller stopped and he had a vision telling him to preach the Gospel. He returned home where he was thought to be mad and was imprisoned briefly. He eventually made his way back to Lagos, where he became associated with the Faith Tabernacle, an independent Yoruba church which had broken from the Anglican Church. During the 1930s he led a revival, which swept parts of Yorubaland, known as the Aladura movement. Although the movement involved no political protest, British officials feared its potential and put pressure on Nigerian chiefs to deny Babalola’s followers land grants. Babalola himself was jailed in 1932, charged with participating in a witch-eradication ordeal. He was released after six months, and remained prominent until his death. |
Re: Who Is This Joseph Ayo Babalola - Biography by Hier(m): 1:17pm On Sep 22, 2017 |
Link2 Joseph Ayo Babalola, a pioneer in the African independent church movement, was the founder of the Christ Apostolic Church, a major branch of the Aladura movement. The praying or prophetic ( aladura ) churches had begun to spread across the continent in the 1920s, and among the Yoruba they had taken strong root with the rise of the Cherubim and Seraphim Society. In the 1930s, Babalola, who had previously been a highway department steamroller operator, undertook an amazing preaching ministry. After a vision telling him to preach the Gospel caused him to be judged mad and briefly imprisoned, he went to Lagos and joined the Faith Tabernacle, a Yoruba independent church that had broken with Anglicanism. From there he began traveling across Nigeria and into Ghana, attracting crowds and performing healing ceremonies. Unlike the Zionist churches, which appealed to the poor and marginalized of colonial society, the Aladura movement appealed to urban workers. |
Re: Who Is This Joseph Ayo Babalola - Biography by Hier(m): 1:19pm On Sep 22, 2017 |
Link 2 cont. Babalola preached a Christian revival, attacking traditional religious practices, burning fetishes, idols, and witchcraft paraphernalia in grand bonfires, and forbidding polygamy. The Christ Apostolic Church, which he founded in 1955, took its name from a British denomination that helped in its formation. It was neither antimissionary nor anticolonial. Indeed, it had no social or political doctrine at all but instead emphasized spirituality; it was a holiness movement. For these reasons the government did not attempt to attack it, as had happened in the case of William Wadé HARRIS in Ghana and Simon KIMBANGU in the Belgian Congo. Babalola was jailed for a few months on suspicion of participation in a witch eradication campaign, but that was the extent of his conflict with colonial authorities. Babalola headed the church as general evangelist, while its president, Sir I. B. Akinyele, Oba of Ibadan (who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II), represented its social prestige and public acceptance. |
Re: Who Is This Joseph Ayo Babalola - Biography by Hier(m): 1:20pm On Sep 22, 2017 |
Link2 cont. After the death of Babalola, the church continued to grow and in the 1990s had about 500,000 members, with an annual growth of about 15,000. It had 2 seminaries, 26 secondary schools, and a teachers’ college. It has missions in West Africa and overseas among expatriate Nigerians as far away as Houston, Texas. |
Re: Who Is This Joseph Ayo Babalola - Biography by Hier(m): 1:27pm On Sep 22, 2017 |
Link 3 t was Prof. Saburi Biobaku who said, Great men appear now and again to help shape the course of human history. The history of their lives does not of itself amount to the totality of the history of man. It nevertheless serves to illuminate that history and unravel the course of human events [l].
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Re: Who Is This Joseph Ayo Babalola - Biography by Hier(m): 1:30pm On Sep 22, 2017 |
Link 3 cont. The story of Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola, his life and work can be thus classified. His unprecedented Oke-Oye Revival gave birth to what is now known as the Christ Apostolic Church (C.A.C.), a Nigerian indigenous church. 1 Like |
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