04/08/2026
To all our friends and those who wish to support the work of the DACB, please consider making a gift--any amount!--to the project on BU's Giving Day. Here is the link: https://give.bu.edu/schools/BostonUniversity/giving-day/pages/programs-and-causes/dictionary-of-african-christian-biography.
Here is a brief summary of our 2nd gen vision:
The Dictionary of African Christian Biography (DACB.org) exists to gather the stories of the saints — to recover, preserve, and proclaim the lives of the men and women who built the African church, from its ancient North African roots to its living grassroots witnesses today. This work is urgent because Christian identity is at stake-- African Christian identitly.
The DACB does not merely document the past. It participates in the revival of the present. Over Africa hangs a great cloud of witnesses — martyrs and evangelists, healers and theologians, mothers and fathers of the faith — whose names are slipping from memory with each passing generation. The DACB is called to gather them in. It is, at its heart, a ministry of remembrance: restoring to African Christians the faces of their forebears, so that, in them, they and the rest of us in the global church might find courage for our own journey. We believe these stories carry the breath of the living God. We believe they will point those who encounter them toward Jesus himself.
We tell these stories because the church needs them. Because the next generation must hear them. Because revival has always been fueled by the memory of what God has already done — and he has done so much in Africa. Would you join us in making sure those stories are not lost?
