Simão Toco
From Kook Science
| Simão Toco | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mayamona 24 February 1918 |
| Died | 1 January 1984 (65) |
Simão Goncalves Toco [Toko] (February 24, 1918 - January 1, 1984), also known as Mayamona, was an Angolan Mukongo religious leader, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ on Earth or the Tocoista Church, who was regarded by followers as the "Apostle of Peace" and a prophet.
Reading
- Grenfell, F. James (May 1998), "Simao Toco: An Angolan Prophet", Journal of Religion in Africa 28 (2): 210-226, doi:10.2307/1581713
- Blanes, Ruy Llera (Mar. 2011), "Unstable Biographies: The Ethnography of Memory and Historicity in an Angolan Prophetic Movement", History and Anthropology 22 (1): 93–119