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 Dr. E. Dale LeBaron was born in Barnwell, Alberta, Canada, and was a professor of Church History at Brigham Young University. He spent eight years in Africa and when the revelation on the priesthood was announced in June 1978, Dr. Lebaron and his wife, Laura, were presiding over the only mission on the continent of Africa which included South Africa and Zimbabwe. To preserve this history Dr. LeBaron conducted an oral history project in ten countries where the Church was established in Africa a decade after the 1978 revelation-South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Zaire, Ciskei, Transkei, Swaziland, and the island nations of Mauritius and Reunion
Following his oral history work Dr. LeBaron observed some interesting parallels between the restoration of the Gospel and the Establishment of the Church in black Africa, which he included in his book. |
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"The opportunity to collect oral histories from African Saints came in 1988, when the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University approved funding for me to travel to Africa for that purpose. Mission presidents throughout Africa helped in any way they could. I seemed to receive help from the Lord too-the favorable timing of the many interviews was remarkable, for instance. Experienced collectors of oral history told me that I would be fortunate to average on interview a day in Africa, but on some days I did as many as a dozen, and in one hundred days I accumulated more than four hundred interviews!"| FUNDING PROVIDED BY |
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