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	Samuel Ajayi Crowther Summary
		Samuel Crowther, of the Yoruba tribe, was enslaved in 1821 and put aboard a ship which was captured by the British navy.
		Samuel Ajayi Crowther was a member of the Yoruba ethnic group.
		Ajayi was captured by Fulani slave raiders in 1821 and sold to Portuguese slave traders.
	www.bookrags.com /Samuel_Ajayi_Crowther (949 words)

	Samuel Ajayi Crowther - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crowther was captured by local slavers in 1821 and sold to Portuguese slave traders.
		Following the expedition, Crowther was recalled to England, where he was trained as a minister and ordained by the bishop of London.
		Following the British Niger Expeditions of 1854 and 1857, Crowther produced a primer for the Igbo language in 1857, another for the Nupe language in 1860, and a full grammar and vocabulary of Nupe in 1864.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Ajayi_Crowther (411 words)

	Crowther, Samuel Ajayi, Nigeria, Anglican
		Crowther twice recorded his memories of the event, vividly recalling the desolation of burning houses, the horror of capture and roping by the neck, the slaughter of those unfit to travel, the distress of being torn from relatives.
		Crowther was the outstanding representative of a whole body of West African church leaders who came to the fore in the pre-Imperial age and were superseded in the Imperial.
		The legacy of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the humble, devout exponent of a Christian faith that was essentially African and essentially missionary, has passed to the whole vast church of Africa and thus to the whole vast church of Christ.
	www.dacb.org /stories/nigeria/legacy_crowther.html (4143 words)

	Let the stones speak, the spire and crypt inspire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Samuel Ajayi Crowther (ca.1806-1892), the first Black Anglican bishop, was a Yoruba, one of the oldest and most advanced tribes in the region that comprises today's Nigeria.
		Crowther was particularly concerned about the effect of trafficking in whiskey and the slave trade, which - though formerly abolished in 1838 - continued in the interior of the continent.
		Among other accomplishments, Crowther was proficient in languages, which aided him immensely in his Evangelical work. He was the chief translator of the Bible into the Yoruba language, and composed both a Yoruba grammar and dictionary.
	www.stmaryislington.org /history/045.html (592 words)

	samuel ajayi crowther Free Essays
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	Crowther, Samuel Ajayi, Nigeria, Anglican (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Ajayi, his mother and two sisters, ran into the hands of two of the raiders, who put nooses round their necks.[4] They were led away to join thousands of others under the same affliction.
		The consecration of Crowther was solemn and the sermon was preached by the Rev. H.
		Bishop Crowther knew that salaries of thirty-six pounds and sixty-two pounds per annum for an evangelist and an ordained missionary respectively were inadequate to maintain families of five to seven members and that usually Church workers took keen interest in educating their children.
	www.gospelcom.net /dacb/stories/nigeria/crowther4_samajayi.html (8532 words)

	Samuel Adjai Crowther slave and bishop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		In later years the story was told that a diviner had indicated that Ajayi was not to enter any of the cults of the orisa, the divinities of the Yomba pantheon, because he was to be a servant of Olomn,(2) the God of heaven.(3) He grew up in dangerous times.
		Crowther twice recorded his memories of the event, vividly recalling the desolation of booming houses, the horror of capture and roping by the neck, the slaughter of those unfit to travel, the distress of being torn from relatives.
		Crowther, though no great scholar or Arahist, developed an approach to Islam in its African setting that reflected the patience and the readiness to listen that marked his entire missionary method.
	chi.gospelcom.net /morestories/crowther.shtml (4029 words)

	1822. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		In 1841, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a Saro, began the Niger Mission.
		Crowther and his followers built a wholly African-run mission church.
		In 1864, Crowther was made the Anglican bishop of West Africa.
	www.bartleby.com /67/1514.html (380 words)

	rootswomen.com - Ayanna - Unfinished Business
		Archdeacon Crowther, the Bishop's son, took the argument against polygamy to its logical conclusion when he said that he was not worried about the fate of the wives of polygamists who were divorced so that their husbands could become monogamists and acceptable for baptism.
		For most of the 1870's Bishop Crowther established a formal alliance with the rulers of the Nupe kingdom as the southern outpost of the Sokoto Caliphate which was ostensibly being erected on the basis of a slave economy.
		Crowther, an Oyo, was enslaved in 1821 by Oyo Muslim warlords.
	www.rootswomen.com /ayanna/articles/ajayi.html (4896 words)

	Crowther, Samuel Ajayi, Nigeria, Anglican (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		A number of Crowther's agents came under attack for moral turpitude, and he was blamed for poor discipline.
		Crowther himself had long noted that his agents were untrained, and that he had no means to supervise them.
		Although Crowther is best remembered for his missionary activities, he also made valuable scholarly contributions in his journals of the Niger expeditions, and his study of the Yoruba language, published in the 1840s and 1850s.
	wesley.nnu.edu /DACB/DACBCDFILES/stories/nigeria/crowther1_samuel.html (407 words)

	» Blog Archive » Bishop Before His Time
		Crowther, along with a missionary of German descent named J. Schön, was to implement the Christianity part of the triad.
		Crowther’s team was greeted warmly, and each morning, between 100 and 200 of the town’s 50,000 people listened to him preach in Yoruba under a tree between two markets.
		Crowther was headquartered in Lagos, spending as much as nine months of the year there—and thus away from his diocese (still more a mission diocese than Venn’s vision of a self-supporting church).
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	vista
		One account has it that Ajayi, his mother and other few villagers who were captured in 1821 and later sold to slave traders were tied to the Boabab tree still standing in the village centre.
		He was quick to put the blame on the neglect culture that permeates Nigerian society in building monuments for her heroes and heroines, saying: Though we are happy that Ajayi Crowther was a native of our village, the Anglican Communion and government at all levels have neglected us.
		Ajayi’s father, Ayemi, who was the founder of the village, died in the process.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/features/vista/vt102072006.html (3482 words)

	Samuel Adjai Crowther
		SAMUEL ADJAI CROWTHER, foe of the slave trade and the liquor traffic in Africa and pioneer of civilization in the basin of the Niger, was the first Negro on record to be ordained a bishop of the United Church of Great Britain and Ireland.
		Crowther was born in West Africa about 1806, and belonged to the Yoruba, one of the oldest and most advanced of the tribes of Africa.
		Crowther was particularly grieved by the slave trade and the whiskey traffic--the two great curses of Africa-and fought them where he could.
	www.ijebu.org /conquerors/samuelCrowther (2092 words)

	Frontline Fellowship - Working for Reformation & Praying for Revival
		Samuel Marsden, pioneer missionary to New Zealand, witnessed the depth of degradation and the hold of superstition over the Maori people, when the widow of the deceased chief hanged herself with the approval and applause of her parents and brothers.
		Samuel Crowther was captured by African slave traders and sold to a Portuguese trader for transport across the Atlantic, but he was rescued by a British Naval Squadron.
		Samuel was converted to Christ, received an education both in Sierra Leone and in England, and in 1843 was ordained as a minister of the Church of England for service with the Church Missionary Society.
	www.frontline.org.za /news/making_disciples_nations.htm (3891 words)

	The Greatest Africans Of All Time
		Samuel Crowther was the first African Bishop of the Church of England.
		Samuel Crowther was one of the first four students to graduate from Fourah Bay College, Sub Saharan Africa's first university (built on the site of an old Arab slave market).
		Crowther's dynamic ministry was effective in opposing slavery, witchcraft and Islam and he succeeded in indigenising an Evangelical Anglicanism which was truly African.
	www.christianaction.org.za /articles_ca/2004-3-GreatestAfricansOfAllTime.htm (1099 words)

	Gilder Lehrman Center \|
		The figure who dominated that phase was Samuel Ajayi Crowther, an ex-captive who was rescued in 1822 from a slave ship bound for Brazil, and landed in Sierra Leone to join the colony of freed slaves there.
		Crowther helped to establish satellite Christian communities among the dispossessed and downtrodden in the process of which he crossed the paths of chiefs and missionaries, whose different interests he threatened.
		Crowther represented the novel concept of recaptive leadership in the shift of the antislavery strategy from Europe and America to Africa.
	www.yale.edu /glc/books/sanneh1.html (3080 words)

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		Crowther was baptized by the Rev. John Rahan of the Anglican Church Missionary Society (CMS).
		Crowther returned to England to be ordained a priest on Trinity Sunday, 1843.
		Crowther spent nine months of a year in Lagos, the CMS headquarters, which he didn’t like, and he was also dependent on the West African Company to travel upriver to the mission sites.
	www.hillcovch.org /Hspecial/crowther.htm (812 words)

	Ajayi lecture 2b
		Crowther mentioned his frustration to his Bible class, and they had to encourage him not to feel too disappointed since the Christians had other successes to show.
		As early as 1851, when Crowther was summoned to meet the Prime Minister and the Queen, Townsend imagined that it was to discuss the issue of a fl Bishop demanded for Abeokuta by an influential member of the CMS.
		Crowther found the experience very trying, being encamped for almost a year with the "mixed body of men of different characters, temper, view and aim and mostly of no Christian principles".
	www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk /CAjay2b.htm (4161 words)

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		Crowther, along with a missionary of German descent named J. Schön, was to implement the Christianity part of the triad.
		Crowther’s team was greeted warmly, and each morning, between 100 and 200 of the town’s 50,000 people listened to him preach in Yoruba under a tree between two markets.
		Crowther was headquartered in Lagos, spending as much as nine months of the year there—and thus away from his diocese (still more a mission diocese than Venn’s vision of a self-supporting church).
	africanwanderings.com (3974 words)

	Crowther, Samuel Ajayi, Nigeria, Anglican (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Crowther was an eminent clergyman; his young namesake was to make the name far more celebrated.
		Crowther had spent those early years in Sierra Leone at school, getting an English education, adding carpentry to his traditional weaving and agricultural skills.
		There had been no opportunity to train that African mission force foreseen by Schön and Crowther in their report on the Niger Expedition, but at least in Crowther there was one ordained Yoruba missionary available.
	www.gospelcom.net /dacb/stories/nigeria/legacy_crowther.html (4143 words)

	Glimpses bulletin #152: Samuel Crowther Adjai
		It had among the liberated Africans brought there from the slave ships a vast language laboratory for the study of all the languages of West Africa as well as a source of native speakers as missionaries, and in the institution at Fourah Bay it had a base for study and training.
		It was headed by Townsend, Crowther, and a German missionary, C.A. Gollmer, with a large group of Sierra Leoneans from the liberated Yoruba community.
		In this issue we look at Samuel Crowther, one of the 19th century pioneers of African Christianity who was instrumental in paving the way for the astounding 20th century expansion of the church on that continent.
	chi.gospelcom.net /GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps152.shtml (1925 words)

	Egbe Omo Yoruba Education \| National Association of Yoruba Descendants in North America
		Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, first African bishop was the first Yoruba to receive higher education.
		Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther was the first Nigerian to receive higher education.
		Ajayi was ordained a priest in 1844, and years later, he became the first Bishop of West Africa.
	www.yorubanation.org /yoruba/Education.htm (1597 words)

	The Story of Africa\| BBC World Service
		Samuel Ajayi Crowther was one of the most famous African representatives of a European church (in this case the Anglican Church).
		He was commissioned by the CMS to set up the Niger Mission; the first expedition to do so resulted in the death of a third of the party, all of which Crowther carefully documented in his journal.
		A generation after Samuel Crowther, another formidable African churchman emerged in Nigeria: the Anglican priest, the Reverend J. Ransome Kuti.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/8chapter5.shtml (1251 words)

	PROPHETS WITHOUT HONOUR: AFRICAN APOSTLES OF MODERNITY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
		I would like to add that not only was Crowther a patriot to the core, he was one of the earliest scientists, make that polymath, to emerge from the modern era in Africa.
		According to Ajayi, the foremost living scholar of Crowther’s life and work, he was born in Yorubaland in about 1806, was rescued by the Naval Squadron in April 1822 off Lagos, and released in Freetown as a freed slave in July.
		It is a mark of how little we know, much less appreciate, of Crowther’s philological labours that he is never taught as one of the principal figures of the history of philology, even in Nigeria where he did the bulk of this work.
	www.westafricareview.com /vol3.1/taiwo.html (9921 words)

	Chapter Two of Samuel Erivwo's Biography of Bishop Agori Iwe
		But it is significant that Agori Iwe was born in 1906, a century after the birth of Ajayi Crowther.
		For those who already know the biography of Ajayi Crowther, it is important that in studying the life of Agori Iwe they also bear this fact in mind.
		Samuel’s mother was significantly given the name Hannah, at her baptism, an obvious allusion to the Biblical Hannah, wife of Elkanah and mother of the Seer, Prophet, and Priest, Samuel.
	www.waado.org /Biographies/AgoriIwe/Parentage.html (821 words)

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		Most earlier accounts, from Crowther and Johnson onwards, started with the arrival of Oduduwa at Ife, either from heaven or from the Middle East (Johnson,1921: 5-7), and the subsequent migration of his descendants to found their own kingdoms elsewhere.
		Present on the voyage was Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the most eminent of the Saro repatriates from Sierra Leone.
		Even Bishop Crowther's work in the Niger Mission came under attack, and after his death no African successor was appointed, despite the availability of men such as James Johnson, who had been considered for a diocese as early as 1876 (Ajayi, 1965: 231).
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /YorubaT/yt2.html (9513 words)

	Expo Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		This connection is evident in the lives of elites such as Samuel Ajayi Crowther, an example of an African intellectual invented and inventive.
		Samuel Ajayi Crowther was born during the Yuroba wars that reshaped western Nigeria in the early 19
		As Crowther was passing out of this world Edward Wilmot Blyden, an intellectual giant and visionary, who skillfully swam through the sea of American racism to make a career in West Africa in 1850, went beyond Crowther’s activities.
	www.expotimes.net /books/zachernut.htm (1066 words)

	Vanguard - Education: Ajayi Crowther, Redeemer varsities take off September
		The two universities which have indicated interest to open shop this year include Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, owned by the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) and the Redeemer’s University, Ede which is the baby of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG.
		Samuel Ajayi Crowther was kidnapped in 1821, rescued as a slave in 1822, a mission school boy in 1823, a baptized Christian in 1825, ordained in 1843, and became the first fl bishop in 1864.
		The Ajayi Crowther University intends to take off with 410 foundation students and will peak at 2,080, at the 10th year of development.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/features/education/edu526052005.html (956 words)

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