Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Samuel Ajayi Crowther

Yoruba linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria (1809-1891)

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1809

Place of Birth: Iseyin, Oyo State, Nigeria

Date of Death: 31-Dec-1891

Profession: bishop, missionary, cleric, Anglican priest, Missionary Bishop, linguist, Bible translator

Nationality: United Kingdom, Nigeria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Samuel Ajayi Crowther

  • Samuel Ajayi Crowther (c.?1809–31 December 1891), was a Yoruba linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria.
  • Born in Osoogun (in what is in lanlate, Oyo State, Nigeria), he and his family were captured by Fulani slave raiders when he was about twelve years old.
  • Crowther was freed from slavery at a coastal port by the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron, which was enforcing the ban against the Atlantic slave trade.
  • The liberated peoples were resettled in Sierra Leone.
  • In Sierra Leone, Ajayi adopted an English name of Samuel Crowther, and began his education in English.
  • He adopted Christianity and also identified with Sierra Leone's ascendant Creole ethnic group.
  • He studied languages and was ordained as a minister in England, where he later received a doctoral degree from Oxford University.
  • He prepared a Yoruba grammar and translation of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer into Yoruba, also working on a Yoruba version of the Bible, as well as other language projects.

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