Translating the message by Lamin Sanneh

A Gambian-born Yale professor overturns the assumption that Christian missionaries destroyed the cultures they entered — arguing they actually empowered indigenous languages and identities. Born Muslim in The Gambia and later converting to Christianity, Sanneh brought a rare insider-outsider perspective to this landmark study of how missionary Christianity spread across the non-Western world. His central argument — that Bible translation into indigenous languages actually strengthened those languages rather than supplanting them — upended decades of postcolonial critique and made the book required reading in theology, religious studies, and African history departments worldwide. It went through thirteen printings and remains one of the most cited works in the field of world Christianity.

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