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Samuel Crowther

    Samuel Ajayi Crowther was a pioneering linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria. His life's journey, from capture by Muslim raiders and sale to Portuguese slavers to liberation by the British Royal Navy, shaped his profound interest in languages and faith. Crowther became a significant advocate for education and linguistic study among his people, marking him as a pivotal figure in West Africa's cultural and religious landscape.

    Rowing and Track Athletics
    A Grammar Of The Yoruba Language (1852)
    Journal of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers Undertaken by Macgregor Laird in Connection With the British Government in 1854
    A Sermon Preached Before The Barking Association, On Sunday, 17th June, 1798
    The First Million the Hardest; an Autobiography
    My Life and Work