BD Ph.D, theologian, educationist, born September 28, 1913, Ikorodu, Lagos State; married Elizabeth Yewande, two sons, four daughters; Education: Baptist Boys' High School, Abeokuta, 1932-33, Wesley College, Ibadan, 1935-38. 1942-44, Wesley House, Cambridge. England, 1945-47, Wesley Col lege, Headingley, England, 1947-48; Minister, Otapete Methodist Church, Ilesa, 1948-49; Minister. Methodist Mission, Northern Nigeria. 1949-51; Minister, Trinity Methodist, Tinubu, 1951-57; Superintendent and Manager of Schools, Tinubu Circuit, Lagos, 1953-57; Chaplain, West-Germany, 1957-58; appointed Professor and Head, Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan, 1963; former Patriarch, Methodist Church, Nigeria; former Chairman, Council of Theological Education in Nigeria; former President, Methodist Chur ch, Nigeria; Publications: Olodumare: God in Yoruba Belief (Longman, 1962), God in Nigerian Belief (Lagos, Federal Information Service, 1963), Towards an Indigenous Church (Oxford, England, 1965), Job: A Meditation On The Problems of Suffering (Dayster Press, 1967), and numerous articles in national and international learned journals; Hobbies: photography, table tennis.
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