Joseph Bosco BANGURA holds an MPhil [Fourah Bay College, University of  Sierra Leone], ThM [ETF Leuven, Belgium], and PhD [ETF Leuven, Belgium & VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands]). He serves as Senior  Researcher in Missiology and African Pentecostalism at two university departments: Religious Studies and Missiology, at the Evangelische  Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (Belgium); and Intercultural Theology at the Protestant Theological University, Groningen (the Netherlands).