DIn Christian circles, he is considered more of a conservative, closer to Monsignor Lefebvre than to Dom Helder Camara, the apostle of liberation theology in Latin America. But in Guinea, his country of origin, Monsignor Sarah is a true icon. It is the voice of the “voiceless”, the herald of the silent majority, the focal point of collective frustrations, he who nevertheless comes from the minority on the ethnic level as well as on the religious level: Christians represent less than 10% of the Guinean population while the Coniaguis (his ethnic group) do not even total 1%.
A striking resemblance
Like Desmond Tutu, this former archbishop of Conakry who became a cardinal never has his tongue in the…