[5] Azusa Street missionaries Thomas Hezmalhalch and John Lake carried Seymour's Pentecostal message to South Africa in 1908.
[5] The Zionist movement and other African Instituted Churches (AICs) helped spread Seymour's message even further although it is questioned if the term Pentecostalism can be applied to them.
[3] At the beginning of the twenty-first century somewhere between 10–40% of South Africa's population could be called Pentecostal but this classification varies depending on how the religion is defined.
South Africans were intrigued by these preachers, such as the Nigerian Emmanuel Eni, due to their dramatic sermons and admittance of previously being involved with dark magic.
Not only were these factors appealing to South Africans, but the preachers provided them with an alternative Christian future that contained rewards not only in the afterlife, but during life on earth.
[1] He would wear a white cassock and turban, holding a staff, Bible, and baptismal bowl while attacking the local spiritual beliefs and their leaders.
[1] It caused many Africans living on the Ivory coast to disconnect from their traditional practices, such as festivals, burial rituals, and the disappearance of huts for women during their menstrual cycle.
Missionaries from England observed how prevalent the religious differences were between the Ivory Coast and Dahomey or Togo.
In 1922, Captain Paul Marty, the colonial administrator, described this distinction as a "religious fact, almost unbelievable, which has upset all the ideas we had about black societies of the Coast—so primitive, so rustic—and which with our occupation and as a consequence of it will be the most important political and social event of ten centuries of history, past, present or future of the maritime Ivory Coast."
[8] It has seven weekly services (three on Sunday) and emphasizes the teachings of Harris, such as monogamy, prayer instead of sacrifice, and the abolition of fetishes.
[7] In the 1970s, independent charismatic churches began to surface in West Africa at a fast pace.,[1] specifically in Nigeria and Ghana.
[2] In August, 1906, Lucy Farrow, Julia Hutchins, and others arrived in Liberia, the first location in Africa to receive Pentecostal missionaries.
[5] Farrow wrote to William J. Seymour saying that God had given her the ability to speak in the Kru language and that she could therefore baptize and heal many natives.
In 1916, the Methodist Episcopal church noted that “Literally thousands, largely young people, have been swept in to the kingdom of God.
[3] Pentecostalism began in Nigeria during the early twentieth century as a renewal movement to the prominent mission churches in Africa.
Pentecostalism in Ethiopia continued to develop and eventually the Full Gospel Believer's Church (FBGC) was created in 1967.