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Kivengere, Festo (A)
All articles created or submitted in the first twenty years of the project, from 1995 to 2015.
1919-1988
Anglican Communion , Balokole Movement
Uganda
Festo Kivengere, “the Billy Graham of Africa,” was a Ugandan Christian leader who faced the wrath of the brutal dictator Idi Amin.
Festo kivengere biography sampler
Unlike Janni Luwum, who had been killed by Amin, Kivengere and his family fled the country. He returned after Amin’s downfall to continue an active ministry until his death by leukemia in 1988.
Born in 1919 in a rural setting among the semi-nomadic rural pastoralists of southwest Uganda, Festo Kivengere belonged to a pagan ruling family.
He spent his early life as a cattle herder, where he would read children’s books about Jesus while herding calves. At about age ten he joined a mission school established in his village and was eventually sent away for higher education, after which he returned to his village as a teacher.
Converted to Christianity during a revival me