African Initiative And Inspiration In The East African Revival

The active agents in the multiethnic, multicultural East African Revival are African leaders who forge a new, distinctly African Christian spirituality that precipitates the moral and spiritual transformation of countless individuals throughout the region.

From the 1930s the East African Revival influenced Christian expression in East Central Africa and around the globe. This book analyses influences upon the movement and changes wrought by it in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Congo, highlighting its impact on spirituality, political discourse and culture. A variety of scholarly approaches to a complex and changing phenomenon are juxtaposed with the narration of personal stories of testimony, vital to spirituality and expression of the revival, which give a sense of the dynamism of the movement. Those yet unacquainted with the revival will find a helpful introduction to its history. Those more familiar with the movement will discover new perspectives on its influence.

Reexamines the first twenty years of the East African revival movement in Uganda, 1935-1955, arguing that through the movement African Christians articulated and developed a unique spiritual lifestyle.

Renewal movement within Evangelical churches in East Africa during the late 1920s and 1930s. The revival contributed to the significant growth of the church in East Africa in the 1940s through the 1970s.

In the mid-1930s a remarkable movement of God was experienced in the African countries of Rwanda and Uganda spreading to Burundi, Keny and Tanzania. This was Revival in the sense in which Evangelical Christians understand the term.That revival was like an earthquake with its epicentre in north Rwanda and south-east Uganda. Its shock waves reached all the countries of East Africa and beyond. The dramatic earthquake like manifestations ceased. The bush fire of that Revival did not. It has continued in Africa, Europe, USA and elsewhere to this day.