STORIES of IMPACT
“DACB makes accessible to all and sundry the rich and lively history of Christianity in Africa, in a format most understandable to the millions of Africans whose predecessors advanced the gospel on the continent. The dictionary confirms that history is not abstracted tales; in all their vicissitudes, human beings make it happen.”
— Dr. Kehinde Olabimtan, DACB Editorial Board
“My students are delighted and proud to have their biographies appear on the DACB. “Thank you for your help in making me an author,” one said to me lately. Another told me that the subject’s family expressed their gratefulness for his hard work in documenting the life of their father/husband. “You brought our father back to life even though he was dead”, they said. The DACB plays an essential role in documenting the stories of Africans’ contributions to the growth of the church both in Africa and around the world. And the collaborative process of producing biographies helps to strengthen global church relationships, functioning as a bridge toward the shared remembering of the stories that make us all into a global body.”
— Dr. Anicka Fast, DACB Editorial Board
“I consider myself privileged to have known the genesis of this very valuable project and have followed its development with keen interest. Digitizing stories of African Christian leaders and making them accessible to all will ultimately fill a glaring lacuna in African Christian historiography.”
— Rev. Dr. Casely Essamuah, Secretary, Global Christian Forum; DACB Editorial Board
“I have really benefitted so much because the workshop has really opened my eyes into understanding the contribution of what I call some of our unsung heroes in the development of churches in Africa.”
— Rev. Stephen Obeng, University of Cape Coast; Ghana Workshop on Writing the Stories of Women participant.