Abstract:
This study examines the relationship between general studies, information and communication
technology (ICT), and contemporary evangelism in Nigeria. Information and communication
technology (is defined as a diverse set of technological tools and resources used to transmit,
store, create, share or exchange information. These technological tools and resources include
computers, the Internet (websites, blogs and emails), live broadcasting technologies (radio,
television and webcasting), recorded broadcasting technologies (podcasting, audio and video
players, and storage devices) and telephony (fixed or mobile, satellite, visio/video conferencing,
etc.). Contemporary evangelism and mission in Africa is a radical approach embarked upon
by agents of modern religious thoughts and practices to expand the horizons of the mission of
religion to mankind in the present dispensation through general studies (GS) and ICT
programmes. Through the medium of ICT, Christian evangelism has received a boost
in television, radio broadcasts, computers, and the Internet across cities and nations. This work
is an attempt to examine the methods adopted by early missionaries in evangelising Africa
vis-à-vis the modern techniques of GS and ICT, the challenges of mission, the concept of ICT
and its various forms such as phones, television, radio, computers, and the Internet, and their
relevance to mission. This work therefore adopted historical, missiological, and
phenomenological approaches in the analysis of data.
CONTRIBUTION: This work discovers that radical development in communication across the
globe has influenced and affected Christian methods and practices of carrying out ‘the mission
of religion’ and its evangelical perspective, among others.
