Course Facilitator for OMSC Digital Certificate in Lived Theology & World Christianity

Fbenyah87@gmail.com / kwabena.benyah@gmail.com

Dr. Francis Ethelbert Kwabena Benyah is a researcher at the Department for the Study of Religions, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. Benyah’s research interest focuses on African Pentecostal Christianity with a special interest in how it intersects and interacts with public life in areas such as media, politics, health and human rights. Benyah is also a recipient of the prestigious Lamin Sanneh Research Prize, has served as a visiting scholar at the Princeton Theological Seminary, NJ, USA, and as a guest researcher at the Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He co-edited the book Contemporary Discourses in Social Exclusion published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023.