Talk:Samuel Ajayi Crowther

message: * References to the Niger expedition- I need to read more on this, but I'm pretty sure this refers to the Niger River, not Niger, the modern country/region. I say this because of the fact that he began working on Igbo translations after a later expedition. Rjhatl 02:29, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: See this valuable post on Abecedaria and the references cited therein, in particular this Christianity Today article. — mark ✎ 15:25, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: After 1864

message: 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)
thread_title:  1806 or 1807? 

message: 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.
:As the article says, he was freed by the British Navy and he was taken to Freetown, Liberia. He probably got his name from agents of the CMS where he received schooling. As far as I know, not much is known about the origin of Crowther's European name, but it might be relevant that at that time in the colony of Freetown, it frequently happened that liberated slaves assumed the family names of Europeans. Ajayi (or Ajai) most probably was his Yoruba family name. Hair (1967:12) points out that, for some unknown reason, all his scholarly publications just bear the name 'Samuel Crowther'. — mark ✎ 12:37, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  the name 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: 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.
:Most, if not all of this information is already here, but I wanted to make sure nothing got lost. Editor2020 (talk) 20:59, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text from [[Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim]]  

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message: So his n mission was to help crhisanity grow 102.219.153.71 (talk) 20:27, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mission accomplished