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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.
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.
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
Artists include the Music Maker Relief Foundation's Etta Baker, Cootie Stark, and Neal Pattman, as well as B.B. King, Henry Townsend, Hubert Sumlin, Lazy Lester, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Pinetop Perkins, and several others.
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.
[3] [4] [a] It was first performed in the taverns of St. Louis by the Sparks brothers and was recorded July 28, 1935 by Pinetop with Henry Townsend on guitar. The song is a twelve-bar blues that features Pinetop's piano and falsetto vocal. The opening verse includes the line "Every day, every day I have the blues".
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.
Townsend was born Henry Jesse James Townsend in Shelby, Mississippi [1] to Allen and Omelia Townsend. His father was a blues musician who played guitar and accordion. When Henry was young, his family moved near Cairo, Illinois. [2] Henry left home at the age of nine because of his abusive father and hoboed his way to St. Louis, Missouri. [3]