Tom Hobbes

"Thomas Simon Hobbes III" was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, to Thomas Simon Hobbes Jr. and Mpho Ezinkulu, on the 5th of May 1965.Hobbes' father Thomas Simon Hobbes Jr., the son of an African American church minister in the city of Baltimore in the United States of America, had come to Johannesburg two years earlier to help in the struggle against the Apartheid regime. There he met Mpho Ezinkulu, from the town of Nelspruit in northern South Africa.

Hobbes had a unsettling childhood, with his parents constantly on the move to evade the government authorities whom they were working against. Hobbes' father traveled regularly back to the United States so as to solicit funds for the fight against the racist white minority rule in South Africa.Nevertheless, Hobbes' finished his schooling, which compromised mainly of home schooling that he received from his mother, which was necessary due to the family's constant moving around the country.

After completing his schooling in South Africa, he went to his father's family in Baltimore, so as to be able to further his studies, which he could not do in South Africa, due him being black. At first he received religious lessons from his grandfather, Thomas Simon Hobbes Sr., minister of the local parish church. Hobbes then went on to study at the International African American Christian College in the State of Alabama, and it was there that he was ordained a minister, following in the footsteps of his grandfather and great-grandfather before him.

Hobbes now became the assistant minister at his grandfather's church. Hobbes' grandfather was aging and finding it difficult to continue as leader of the church. Hobbes' weekly sermons on Sunday mornings became very popular, and the small church was always filled to capacity.

Hobbes was most outspoken at the time regarding the situation that existed in South Africa, his birthplace. Hobbes not only spoke about the plight of the African people in South Africa in church, but turned to using all other forms of media available, including his many books published on the matter. Hobbes became known as the "South Africa's Real Ambassador to the USA".

After the Apartheid regime had fallen and a black government came in to power, Hobbes returned to Johannesburg. Once back in South Africa, Hobbes left his political activism, to once again be part of the church.

Hobbes however was becoming uncomfortable with his beliefs and felt he needed something more. After much soul searching, Hobbes found the Noachide movement. Due to the lack of structure that there existed in South Africa for Noachide followers, Hobbes once again returned to America, this time to New York City, where he became an active member of the local Noachide congregation.

In April 2008, Hobbes' childhood friend Professor Desmond Ngubani founded the African People's Church of the Progeny of Noah in South Africa. This prompted Hobbes to found the following moth, a similar church in the United States, that would appeal to his fellow African Americans. Hobbes' branch of the church is known as the African People's Church of the Progeny of Noah International.