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Townsend published a Yoruba newspaper called 'Iwe-Irohin' in 1859. [ a ] [ 1 ] This is said to have started off the print media in Nigeria, as the newspaper was the bilingual paper in Nigeria. [ 4 ] The paper used 8 years before it demise.
Historical records show that the Owu/Egba conquered the contested areas during the Ilobi, Ado-Odo and Dahomey wars of 1836 to 1853. It was documented that Henry Townsend, a British missionary, was present at the ceremonial takeover of the territory by Akindele Gbalefa, the Owu Warrior and head of the Egba allied forces.
1859 – Nigeria's first newspaper, missionary Henry Townsend's Iwe Irohin, was published. [ 5 ] 1881 – The first issue of Tamperean daily newspaper Aamulehti ("Morning Paper") is published.
The origination of the word "Egba" is disputed. The first meaning may come from the word Ẹ̀gbálugbó, meaning wanderers towards the forest, and this comes from the fact that the ancestors of the Egba people came from the region of the Oyo Empire to the "Egba Forest" and formed what we now know as the city of Abeokuta. [5]
Henry Townsend (Oyster Bay) (1649–1703), American colonist born in Oyster Bay Henry Townsend (missionary) (1815–1886), Anglican missionary Henry Townsend (musician) (1909–2006), American blues singer, guitarist and pianist
The Alternative press in Nigeria or the press of the third kind is made up of writers who use militant approaches or viewpoints in news coverage. This usually encompasses guerrilla journalism, a term credited to some Nigerian news magazines for their radical and militant rhetoric and writings usually against the military regimes of the 1990s.
Started by Charles Lawson and Henry Cornish.It was closed in 1981 and was the first evening newspaper in India. [97] 1868 Amrita Bazar Patrika: Bengali: Jessore: British India: The paper discontinued its publication in 1991 after 123 years of publication. 1872 Civil and Military Gazette: English Lahore, Simla: British India
Samuel Ajayi Crowther (c. 1809 – 31 December 1891) was a Yoruba linguist, clergyman, and the first African Anglican bishop of West Africa.Born in Osogun (in what is now Ado-Awaye, Oyo State, Nigeria), he and his family were captured by Fulani slave raiders when he was about twelve years old. [2]