Joseph Roger de Benoist

Father Joseph Roger de Benoist (2 August 1923 – 15 February 2017) was a French missionary, journalist, and historian.[1] His main areas of study were French West Africa and the history of the Roman Catholic Church in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Senegal, where he lived for several decades.

Biography

Father Joseph Roger de Benoist was part of the congregation of the White Fathers. He was born in Meudon and graduated from Lille Graduate School of Journalism with a doctorate in history.[1]

Joseph Roger de Benoist was made Knight (1988) and then Officer (1997) of the French Legion of Honour. He was also an Officer in the Ordre national du Lion du Sénégal (1993).[1] he died, aged 93, in Bry-sur-Marne, France.

Works
  • La balkanisation de l'Afrique occidentale francaise, (foreword by Léopold Sédar Senghor), 1979
  • L'Église catholique et la naissance des nouvelles nations en Afrique occidentale francophone, 1981
  • L'Afrique occidentale française de la Conférence de Brazzaville (1944) à l'indépendance (1960) (foreword by Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow), 1982
  • Les missionnaires catholiques du Soudan français et de la Haute-Volta entrepreneurs et formateurs d'artisans, 1983
  • Colonisation et évangélisation, 1985
  • Église et pouvoir colonial au Soudan français : les relations entre les administrateurs et les missionaires catholiques dans la Boucle du Niger, de 1885 à 1945 (foreword by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch), 1987
  • L'hebdomadaire catholique dakarois "Afrique Nouvelle" et la décolonisation de l'AOF, 1986
  • Félix Éboué et les missions catholiques, 1987
  • L'Église catholique en Afrique : deux millénaires d'histoire, 1991
  • Gorée, Guide de l'île et du Musée historique, 1993 (in collaboration with Abdoulaye Camara)
  • Le Mali, 1998
  • Histoire de Gorée, 2003 (in collaboration with Abdoulaye Camara, Françoise Descamps, Xavier Ricou and James Searing)
  • Léopold Sédar Senghor (with a testimony by Cheikh Hamidou Kane), 1998
  • Histoire de l'Église catholique au Sénégal : du milieu du XVe siècle à l'aube du troisième millénaire, 2008
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See also

References
  1. Richard, F. (2017). "Joseph-Roger de Benoist 1923 – 2017" (PDF). Pères Blancs' website (in French). Retrieved 2017-10-09.
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