Career
He is the author of several books In the early 1970s Kumuyi worked as an education lecturer at the University of Lagos. Pastor West.F Kumuyi was born into a Christian family in Erin-Ijesha, Osun State, Nigeria.
He completed his secondary school education in 1961, and in 1962 started teaching mathematics at Mayflower School in Ikenne, Ogun-State, from where he proceeded to the University of Ibadan and in 1967 graduated with a first-class honours degree in mathematics.
He became a born-again Christian in April 1964. In April 2013, Kumuyi was named as one of the "500 most powerful people on the planet" and Deeper Christian Ministry named as "the World"s largest Megachurch" by Foreign Policy magazine (FP).
