Lamin sanneh biography channel

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.

Biography

Sanneh was born and raised in Gambia as part of an ancient African royal family, and was a naturalized United States citizen.^[1] 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.

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

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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.^[2]

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