Saints of Africa – Jean Olwen Maynard

The African saints that Catholics are most likely to have heard of even if they don’t know much about them lived a very long time ago, and often in parts of Africa which are no longer
Christian. In our own time, and in the more recently Christianised parts of Africa, the Catholic Church is growing faster than perhaps anywhere else in the world but what do we know about the modern saints of Africa such as Daudi Okelo, Clementine Anuarite, Ghebre-Michael, Victoria Rasoamanarivo, to name a few? Here’s a chance to find out.