Tokunboh adeyemo biography of martin
Born into a royal Muslim family in Western Nigeria, Dr Adeyemo was the oldest son and was naturally destined to be the chief of his tribe.!
Adeyemo, Tokunboh (A)
Tokunboh Adeyemo was the General Secretary of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa and Madagascar.
Growing up in a Christian family in a semi-urban city in south-western Nigeria, I was exposed to African Christianity from a young age.
He was a popular speaker, educator, administrator and a prolific author.
He was born in 1944 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 1962 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 1963 to 1970.
After years of searching and depression, he was converted in 1966 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 1967. As a result of his conversion to Christianity,