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Samuel Crowther (c. 1809 – 31 December 1891), was a Yoruba linguist, clergyman, and the first African Anglican bishop of West Africa. Born in Osogun (in what is now Ado-Awaye, Oyo State, Nigeria), he and his family were captured by Fulani slave raiders when he was about twelve years old.
Ajayi fue liberado por dos navíos de guerra ingleses cuando estaban de camino a Sudamérica: el H.M.S Myrmidon y el H.M.S. Iphigenia. En abril del año 1822, Crowther tuvo que empezar una nueva vida en Sierra Leona, colonia creada por Gran Bretaña donde se llevaba a los esclavos liberados.
Crowther, Samuel Adjai [or Ajayi] (c. 1807-1891) African missionary and bishop. Crowther was born with the name Ajayi in Osogun, in the Egba section of the Yoruba people, in what is now western Nigeria.
22 de may. de 2009 · Samuel Adjai (or Ajayi) Crowther was the first bishop of Niger and the first Black bishop in the Anglican Church. As a teen, he was abducted into slavery then traded and sold a number of times before being rescued by Anglican missionaries.
Samuel Ajayi Crowther was probably the most prominent African involved in missionary activity in the nineteenth-century, but he was not the only one who played an important role in ‘spreading the gospel’.
Samuel Crowther (born c. 1809, Oshogun, Yoruba region [Nigeria]—died December 31, 1891, Lagos, Southern Nigeria) was the first African to be ordained by the Church Missionary Society, who was in 1864 consecrated bishop of the Niger territory.
Samuel Ajayi Crowther was a Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary bishop charged with evangelizing the territories that became modern Nigeria. Over the last decades of the 19th century Crowther was the best-known Christian of African descent in the British empire.
