Trump is out, but US evangelicalism is alive and well in Africa
Religion, politics and money are deeply intertwined among Trump-supporting African evangelicals — and dangerously so
24 January 2021 - 07:00
On the day before the 2020 US presidential election, Rev Kenneth Meshoe, the leader of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), tweeted: “Please pray … for President Donald Trump to be re-elected as the President of the United States of America.”
It seems bizarre that a black African Christian would support an overt racist who disdains people who come from “shithole countries”...
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