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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]
The history of the Diocese on the Niger dates back to the Niger expeditions of 1830–1857. After the 1841 expedition, the white missionaries realized that Africa was best evangelized by Africans. This realization led to Samuel Ajayi Crowther being given a prominent role in the mission team to West Africa especially, the Igbo mission.
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Samuel Ajayi Crowther was the first student to be enrolled at Fourah Bay. [2] Fourah Bay College soon became a magnet for Sierra Leone Creoles and other Africans seeking higher education in British West Africa. These included Nigerians, Ghanaians, Ivorians and many more, especially in the fields of theology and education.
Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a Yoruba by birth, was selected to accompany the missionary James Schön on the Niger expedition of 1841. Crowther (later appointed first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria) was the principal missionary to Yorubaland in 1844 and the Niger in 1857. [12] [14]
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In 1881, Samuel Ajayi Crowther compiled the Vocabulary of the Ibo Language, the first comprehensive Igbo dictionary, which was later revised and expanded jointly by Crowther and Schön in 1883 as Vocabulary of the Ibo Language, Part II, an English-Igbo dictionary. [28]
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