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Lamin Sanneh was born on 24 May, 1942 in Abuko, Gambia Colony and Protectorate, is an A gambian emigrant to the United States. Discover Lamin Sanneh's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Occupation Scholar of missions and religious studies
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 24 May, 1942
Birthday 24 May
Birthplace Abuko, Gambia Colony and Protectorate
Date of death 2019
Died Place United States
Nationality Gambia

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1942

Lamin Sanneh (May 24, 1942 – January 6, 2019) was the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University.

Sanneh was born and raised in Gambia as part of an ancient African royal family, and was a naturalized United States citizen.

After studying at the University of Birmingham and the Near East School of Theology, Beirut, he earned his doctorate in Islamic History at the University of London.

1989

Sanneh taught and worked at the University of Ghana, the University of Aberdeen, Harvard, and, from 1989–2019, at Yale.

He was an editor-at-large of The Christian Century, and served on the board of several other journals.

Sanneh had honorary doctorates from University of Edinburgh and Liverpool Hope University.

He was a Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Lion, Senegal's highest national honor.

He was a member of the Pontifical Commission of the Historical Sciences and of the Pontifical Commission on Religious Relations with Muslims.

In his Translating the Message (1989), Sanneh wrote about the significance of the translation of the Christian message into mother-tongue languages in places like Africa and Asia.

Instead of the dominant view that Christian mission primarily propagated "cosmopolitan values of an ascendant West," he argues, "The translation role of missionaries cast them as unwitting allies of mother-tongue speakers and as reluctant opponents of colonial domination."

2008

He continued to develop these reflections in his Disciples of All Nations (2008).

2018

In 2018, a new institute was created in his name, the Sanneh Institute at the University of Ghana.

The Overseas Ministry Study Center (OMSC) at Princeton Theological Seminary created a research grant named in honor of Sanneh.

2019

Sanneh suffered a stroke and died on January 6, 2019.

He was survived by his wife, Sandra Sanneh, a professor of isiZulu at Yale University, and their children Sia Sanneh, a senior attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative, and Kelefa Sanneh, staff writer for The New Yorker.

Sanneh converted to Christianity from Islam and was a practicing Roman Catholic.

Much of his scholarship related to the relationship between Christianity and Islam, especially in Africa and what he understood as "African Islam."

Another major area of Sanneh's academic work was in the study of World Christianity.