The name Elijah goes back to the Bible's Old Testament and derives from a Hebrew phrase meaning “Jehovah is my God.” The original, biblical Elijah was a prophet known for defending the worship ...

“I recognized him to be the person the Bible predicted would come 2,000 years after Jesus’ death,” Elijah Muhammad later said, according to his 1975 Chicago Tribune obituary. Elijah joined ...

and not the one White missionaries preached about in the bible. Elijah Masinde, who equated Mt Elgon 'Sayoni' (Mt Zion) and offered sacrifices there, went against political order when he led his ...