Dear Friends,
This month, we welcome your prayers for leaders from Francophone Africa. Historically, the 22 countries in this region – where poverty, warfare, political instability, and syncretism remain urgent concerns – have received less attention and fewer resources than English-speaking African nations. ScholarLeaders collaborates with three key institutions in Francophone Africa through the Vital SustainAbility Initiative and has sponsored 30 Francophone African leaders (including six, currently) through LeaderStudies. Learn more about the region here. This week, please join us in prayer for Dr. Dieudonné Djoubairou in Cameroon.
Located at the intersection of Central and West Africa, the Republic of Cameroon is known for its ecological and cultural diversity. Rainforests, mountains, savannas, deserts, and beaches mark its geography, and Cameroon’s 23.4 million people speak over 250 languages. Approximately 70% of Cameroonians are Christians (40% Catholic and 30% Protestant, and 18% are Muslims. In the northern region, Boko Haram has displaced over 450,000 people since 2016. Ongoing conflict in western Cameroon between English-speaking Ambazonian separatists and the French-speaking government has displaced over half a million more.
After graduating with his PhD in Systematic Theology in 2012 from Bangui Evangelical School of Theology (BEST) in the Central African Republic, Dieudonné returned to Cameroon, where he began teaching part-time at the Faculty of Evangelical Theology in Cameroon.
In 2013, when rebel forces seized Bangui – the capital of the Central African Republic, which has been embroiled in civil war since December 2012 – Dieudonné helped his alma mater BEST to establish an extension site in Yaoundé, Cameroon. He also served as part-time faculty at this site.
From 2013 to 2015, Dieudonné worked full-time at Francophone University of International Development in Mokolo, Cameroon. In 2016, he helped launch the Autonomous Faculty of Evangelical Theology of Cameroon in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon in the Adamawa Region. He had begun working on this Evangelical University project since his doctoral student days in Bangui.
Djoubairou shares the following message:
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