John Samuel Pobee (9 July 1937 – 22 January 2020) was a Ghanaian Christian theologian and former Vicar General of the Anglican Diocese of Accra, Ghana.
[1] He was Emeritus Professor at the University of Ghana, where he previously taught and served as Head of Department for the Study of Religions and Dean of the Faculty of Arts.
[2] Pobee was known for his work in the New Testament, African Christian theology, and missiology.
He wrote his memoirs, Sense of Grace and Mission,[3] and a festschrift was prepared in his honor, entitled Trajectories of Religion in Africa.
[4] On 26 July 1994, Pobee married Martha Ama Akyaa Nkrumah, a career diplomat of the Ghana Foreign Service.