Vox Populi: Developing Global Song In The Northern World

With the increase in the number of Christians in other parts of the world other than the Northern (or Western) world, the church of the Northern world should learn from the musical geniuses of these different peoples. In this article, the author suggests what African music, Asian music, and Central and Latin American music offers Northern people. An African Experience In the fall of 1989, I spent five months in Africa, primarily in Nigeria, teaching at a seminary in the southern region of the country populated primarily by the Yoruba people. Since transportation was readily available, I made every attempt to visit as many local churches as possible on Sunday mornings and experience the vast variety of Nigerian worship. There was one congregation in particular that I enjoyed and I visited them on several occasions. It was not too far from the city of Ogbomosho, where I was living. Just as I drove into the rural area on the eastern edge of the city, there is a sign to the Promised La…