Are there Jesuits in Nigeria, Ghana, and any other West African countries?
There are about one hundred Jesuits in Nigeria and Ghana, both indigenous and expatriates. There are also Jesuits running schools, parishes, and doing other kinds of apostolates in Algeria, Angola, Benin Republic, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroun, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte D’Ivoire; Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Mauritius, Mozambique, Republic of Central Africa, Congo, Réunion, and Rwanda. There are also Jesuits in Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Chad, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. Although there are relatively no Jesuit presence in some countries such as the Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, these three countries will soon become mission territories under the North West Africa Province. However, there is already one Jesuit from the North-West Africa Province working with the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in Liberia. As at 2004, there were about 1,380 Jesuits in the continent of Africa.
