page_title: Alfred Saker
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Alfred Saker / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Alfred Saker was the British missionary who first established the settlement in 1858 which is considered the founding of the town of Victoria. The town was renamed Limbe in 1982. The Cameroon Bible Society still distributes the Duala language Bible which Alfred Saker translated in the late 1800s. The inscription on the monument reads: "Alfred Saker, Missionary to Africa, Who landed, founded and named the Township Victoria. This tablet is erected in memory of his devoted work to mark the Centenary of Victoria, 1858-1958" and is located in the state of Cameroon, Africa.
context_page_description: Alfred Saker was a British missionary of the London Baptist Missionary Society. In 1858 he led a Baptist Mission that relocated from the then Spanish island of Fernando Po and landed in Southern Cameroons. According to the record, he bought land from indigenous Bimbia chiefs, established a seaside settlement christened Victoria after the reigning British Empress. The settlement was renamed Limbe by decree in 1982 by President Ahmadou Ahidjo of Cameroun.
  Alfred Saker wished to be known under no other designation than a "Missionary to Africa".
  He was a leader of the early British Baptist missionaries that established churches on Fernando Po Island and Cameroon. His 1844-1876 mission work included translation - between 1862 and 1872 - of the Bible into the Duala language.
context_section_description: Alfred Saker first went to Africa in 1844 as part of a missionary team on the island of Fernando Po (now Bioko). He was, in the opinion of David Livingstone, the most important English missionary in West Africa. 
  He envisioned great possibilities and tried to convince the English government to make this area a Crown Colony.
  He established his first missionary station on the continent near present-day Douala, Cameroon, in 1845. 
  He founded the city of Victoria, Cameroon, and translated the Bible into Douala, the local language.
caption: Alfred Saker monument
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