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You're absolutely right. 'Niger' as used in the Schon/Crowther journals and the archives of the CMS of that period always refers to the river, especially the lower delta in what is today Nigeria. — mark ✎ 10:50, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
See this valuable post on Abecedaria and the references cited therein, in particular this Christianity Today article. — mark ✎ 15:25, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
What is the reference for the 1807 birth year? Both Hair (1967) and Ajayi (1965) give ca. 1806. Does anyone have the authoritative Ajayi (2002) A Patriot to the Core: Bishop Ajayi Crowther? — mark ✎ 15:25, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
As a freed slave from a boat, meaning no contact with new world slavery,why is it that he has english first name and lastname and not something along the lines of Ajayi Kuti or Olusegun etc. any information would be nice.
There is a character called "Ajayi" in the novel "Walking on Glass" by Iain Banks. The character is imprisoned, and learns English and numerous other languages to try to escape. Sounds like this Ajayi may well have helped to inspire the character. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.26.184.110 ( talk) 21:33, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
Another Samuel Crowther (1880-1947) was the co-author with Henry Ford of some books in the 1920s. -- LA2 ( talk) 21:04, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
In 1821 a 12-year old Yoruba boy by name Ajayi was captured by the Muslim Fulani slave raiders and sold to Portuguese slave traders. The British navy rescued Ajayi from the Portuguese slave traders and took him to Freetown in Sierra Leone. Ajayi was cared for in Sierra Leone by the Anglican Church Missionary Society and converted to Christianity. He was baptized in 1825 and took the name Samuel Crowther. He was taught English in Freetown, sent to Islington Parish School in England, and returned to Freetown Fourah Bay College to study and teach Greek and Latin. In 1841 Crowther was drafted for the first Niger expedition because he was a Yoruba man from the Niger area. Although the expedition was a failure, the Church Missionary Society was so impressed with the ability of Samuel Crowther that they invited him to England for training and ordination. Shortly after his return to Sierra Leone in 1843, Crowther and a young Englishman, Henry Townsend, were sent as Christian teachers to some of the liberated slaves who had returned as prosperous merchants to their native country around Lagos and so began the Yoruba mission with its headquarters at Abeokuta.
Crowder began compiling a Yoruba dictionary and translating the Bible into the Yoruba language soon after his arrival at Abeokuta in 1843. He produced a primer for the Igbo language in 1857 and another for the Nupe language in 1860. Crowther was invited back to England in 1864 to be consecrated Bishop of the Niger territories with eventual responsibility for the whole area from the Nupe Country in the north to the Delta states in the south.
Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther suffered a stroke and died in 1891, a few years after he had completed the translation of the Bible into the Yoruba language.
The result of the move request was: Move. No opposition after a week. Cúchullain t/ c 18:23, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
Ajayi Crowther → Samuel Ajayi Crowther – This article is well referenced and almost every book, article or newspaper report refers to the subject as "Samuel Ajayi Crowther". Perhaps his mother called him Ajayi, but to the rest of the world he was commonly known as Samuel Ajayi Crowther, with spelling variations of Ajayi Wayne Jayes ( talk) 14:36, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
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So his n mission was to help crhisanity grow 102.219.153.71 ( talk) 20:27, 17 May 2024 (UTC)