Pentecostalism in Nigeria: Exploiting or Edifying the Masses?

What began as an innocuous charismatic fervour in African Churches in the early 1980s had its humble origins in the university Christian study groups of the preceding decade. The growth of Pentecostalism in Nigeria was bred by the critical perception of young Christian students in most Southern Nigerian universities that the
main-line churches such as Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, etc.