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Joseph Roger de Benoist

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Father Joseph Roger de Benoist (2 August 1923 – 15 February 2017) was a French missionary, journalist, and historian. [1]

18 relations: Abdoulaye Camara, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Bry-sur-Marne, Catholic Church, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Consecrated life, French West Africa, Gorée, Historian, History of Senegal, Journalist, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Legion of Honour, Meudon, Missionary, Senegal, Sub-Saharan Africa, White Fathers.

Abdoulaye Camara

Abdoulaye Camara (born January 2, 1980 in Bamako) is a Malian international footballer currently playing for Butcherfille Rovers in South Africa.

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Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow

Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, GCIH (born March 20, 1921) is a Senegalese educator.

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Bry-sur-Marne

Bry-sur-Marne is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Cheikh Hamidou Kane (born 2 April 1928 in Matam) is a Senegalese writer best known for his prize-winning novel L'Aventure ambiguë (Ambiguous Adventure), about the interactions of western and African cultures.

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Consecrated life

Consecrated life, in the canon law of the Catholic Church, is a stable form of Christian living by those faithful who are called to follow Jesus Christ in a more exacting way recognized by the Church.

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French West Africa

French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger.

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Gorée

italic ("Gorée Island") is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement (i.e. districts) of the city of Dakar, Senegal.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.

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History of Senegal

The history of Senegal is commonly divided into a number of periods, encompassing the prehistoric era, the precolonial period, colonialism, and the contemporary era.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public.

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Léopold Sédar Senghor

Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal (1960–80).

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Meudon

Meudon is a municipality in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Senegal

Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara.

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White Fathers

The Missionaries of Africa, commonly known as the White Fathers or the Society of the Missionaries of Africa (French: Pères Blancs; post-nominals: M. Afr.) are a Roman Catholic society of apostolic life.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Roger_de_Benoist

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