Where are the African Evangelicals?
Since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, ‘Evangelicalism’ seems to have taken on a whole new meaning in the United States. Mainstream media often portray evangelicals as Trump-supporting conservatives who, in spite of their profession of faith in Jesus, seem to make dubious decisions that are often at odds with their faith.
But that’s in America. In Africa, a continent of some 500 million Christians, 182 million of them are Evangelicals according to Operation World. Personally, I did not grow up thinking of myself…