Meet the Biblica Africa Team

“As it is written: ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!’”

Romans 10:15b (NIV)

Lydia Munene

Lydia Munene​

Vice President, Africa​

Rose Birenge

Director of Mobilization Partnerships

Nahusenay Afework

Regional Director in Northeast Africa

Thomas Amoah

Regional Director for West Africa

Jesse Gathura

Regional Director in East Africa

Carien Kotze

Regional Director for Southern Africa

Dennis Nginya

Digital Innovation Field Product Manager

Susan Njoroge

Senior Director of Finance and Operations

Eben Boafo

Director of Translation in Africa

Eddie Turner

Africa Director of Advancement

Lydia Munene

Lydia Munene

Vice President, Africa​

As Vice President, Lydia provides oversight of Biblica’s work in Africa and ensures that the mission of Biblica is advanced by working with ministry partners. Lydia moved into her current role in 2015 after serving in Biblica for 21 years in various capacities including Regional Director for East Africa, National Coordinator for Kenya, Administration Manager and Communication Coordinator. She is passionate about discipleship for Africa’s children and youth whom she sees as the hope of a transformed continent.

Married to Rev Jotham Munene, a Pastor with Christ is the Answer Ministries (CITAM), Lydia currently resides in Kenya.

Rose Inziani Birenge

Director of Mobilization Partnerships

Rose joined Biblica in 1996 as an Assistant Marketing Manager after attaining a bachelor’s degree in commerce at the University of Nairobi. Since then, she has held different positions in the ministry of Biblica. She is currently the Director of Partnerships in the Mobilization team for the Africa office.

Rose’s love for books started while she very young. Her desire was to have a vocation that allowed her to interact with Christian literature. This is because she saw the transformation of lives through the written Word of God. She continues to be amazed at how God’s written Word transforms the hopeless, the lost, the desperate, the poor, the rich, the educated — any life that God touches.

She lives in Nairobi Kenya with her husband and three children. In addition to her love for books and reading, she loves making new friends, hiking, travelling, and music.

Nahusenay Afework

Regional Director in Northeast Africa

Nahusenay Afework serves as the Regional Director for Northeast Africa. Before his current role at Biblica, he worked as a Communication Specialist leading a media department in an NGO. While working there, he also served on the advisory board of a school owned and run by the NGO.

He has a master’s degree in literature and studied French and Italian languages. He also taught for several years at different levels including Unity and Addis Ababa University.

Nahusenay lives with his wife raising four children — two daughters and twin boys.

Thomas Amoah

Regional Director for West Africa

Thomas has overseen Biblica’s work in West and Central Africa since 2017, currently working with 16 strategic partners in nine countries. He was called into ministry three years after university and has many years of experience as a missionary, beginning with discipling students on the university campus. He has over 20 years of experience in mission leadership across three organizations. His passion is to see biblical Christianity take centre stage of the current church growth in Africa. Biblica provides a perfect platform for this to happen. He and his wife, Love Naa Korkoi, are blessed with four adult male children. They live in Accra, Ghana.

Jesse Gathura

Regional Director in East Africa

Jesse is passionate about seeing the lost transformed by Christ. He has served in various ministry positions for 20 years and with Biblica for the last 12, currently serving as the Regional Director in East Africa. Jesse and his wife, Ruth, live in Nairobi with their two sons, Jayson and Jaydon. He loves travelling, meeting new people, indoor sports, and watching comedy.

Carien Kotze

Regional Director for Southern Africa

Carien joined Biblica in 2021 after eight years with World Vision, working in Southern Africa. She previously did consulting work focusing mainly on socioeconomic impact studies. She also spent time in Southern Africa’s financial services industry.

Carien is married to Willem, who works as a forester in Ghana. Though Carien is based in Pretoria, South Africa she often travels to Ghana and within Southern Africa to support partners as part of the Biblica Mobilization team.

When home, you will often find Carien in her garden, where they grow vegetables and berries.

Dennis Nginya

Digital Innovation Field Product Manager

With over six years of experience in brand management, product design, and pedagogy, Dennis seeks to revolutionize access to the Word of God across Africa using cutting-edge digital tools and technologies. His journey began with frontline ministry engagements, spanning high schools, universities, and church planting activities, culminating in his current role with Biblica
since 2022.

Dennis is dedicated to empowering partners with the products and strategies they need to achieve their ministry goals of Digital Bible engagement. His mission is to bring God’s Word closer to those who seek it, using innovation as his compass.

Dennis is married to Valentine Nekesa, a talented Digital Marketer, and they are proud parents to two daughters.

Susan Njoroge

Senior Director of Finance and Operations

Susan Njoroge is a Senior Director of Finance and Operations for Biblica in Africa. Her role is focused on ensuring financial stability and operational excellence. She has served in various roles starting off as an accountant, then serving as Finance and Administration manager in the Biblica Kenya office before moving into her current role in 2016.

Susan resides in Nairobi, Kenya. She is married to Simon and has four children. She serves in her local church in the Sunday School ministry and is enthusiastic about children knowing God personally and being rooted in God’s Word. This spiritual grounding, she believes, has a great impact on families and communities at large.

Eben Boafo

Director of Translation in Africa

Ebenezer Boafo has been serving as the Area Director of Translation for Biblica Africa since January 2004. In his role, he oversees Bible translation research, planning, and development.


He supervises all Africa Bible translation projects to ensure their integrity and quality. He also mentors and coaches Africa translation staff in the execution and management of translation goals and processes.

Eben is married to Anasthasia Boafo, and they are blessed with two children.

Eddie Turner

Africa Director of Advancement

Before Eddie started working at Biblica as the Africa Director of Advancement in 2023, he was in charge of Corporate and Investment banking at Nedbank Namibia for seven years, where he helped the division grow in various areas like loans, income from interest, sales, and serving clients in Namibia. Eddie has also worked for various account firms and banks including PKF Chartered Accountants in Namibia, Turner Conradie Chartered Accountants in Durbanville, South Africa, Ernst & Young, Boland Bank, and Old Mutual. He also served as a youth pastor in Windhoek, Namibia. Eddie, along with his spouse Annalien, created Foodle® – the Fun Food Game. Eddie enjoys cooking, hiking, and reading.