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THE RELEVANCE OF AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CHURCHES TO THE YORUBA OF SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA

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Journal: Contemporary Humanities

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African Independent Churches (AICs) have contributed immensely to the spirituality and preservation of values and traditional institutions of the Yoruba people in the South-western Nigeria. Emerging from the missionary's and colonialist's imposition of western ideas, liturgy and life styles. African Independent Churches penetrated into the minds of the Yoruba people through contextualization of the Bible truth and de-westernization of the gospel. Hence, they prevailed in interpreting the Bible from Africans' perspective. The relevance of AICs is therefore obvious in the entire life of the Yoruba people in its entirety, ranging from their culture, spirituality, politics, social life, economy, to education and others. It is therefore evident that, the relevance of AICs has led to its proliferation and attracted numerous membership from all walks of life in the South-western Nigeria.
Interestingly, many missionary churches have today taken a cuefrom the AICs to incorporate some of the ideals of AICs into their churches especially in the area of respect for some of the African culture they found compatible with the Christian Bible.

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Falaye,T.A BABALOLA,J. . (2012). THE RELEVANCE OF AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CHURCHES TO THE YORUBA OF SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA, 5 (), 45-45.

Falaye,T.A BABALOLA,J. . "THE RELEVANCE OF AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CHURCHES TO THE YORUBA OF SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA" 5, no (), (2012): 45-45.

Falaye,T.A and BABALOLA,J. and . (2012). THE RELEVANCE OF AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CHURCHES TO THE YORUBA OF SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA, 5 (), pp45-45.

FalayeTA, BABALOLAJ, . THE RELEVANCE OF AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CHURCHES TO THE YORUBA OF SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA. 2012, 5 ():45-45.

Falaye,T. A., and BABALOLA,James . "THE RELEVANCE OF AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CHURCHES TO THE YORUBA OF SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA", 5 . (2012) : 45-45.

F.T. A. & B.James , "THE RELEVANCE OF AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CHURCHES TO THE YORUBA OF SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA" vol.5, no., pp. 45-45, 2012.

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