Ajayi Crowther in the spotlight

; the celebration, on June 29, of the 160th anniversary of the birth of Diocese on the Niger ; and the announcement of release dates of a new novel by Biyi Bandele, about Crowther’s rise to celebrity, published posthumously.

It was in Osoogun, in present-day Iseyin Local Government Area, Oyo State, that his life began as well as the story of his life. It was in his home town that Fulani slave raiders seized him in 1821. He was eventually sold to Portuguese slave traders at the age of 12. The young Ajayi of Yoruba ancestry was rescued by the British navy and taken to Freetown, Sierra Leone.

His language skills produced the first Yoruba translation of the Bible, which was completed in the 1880s, and a Yoruba version of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. These projects demonstrated how seriously he took his Christianity and his evangelism. He also produced primers for the Igbo language and the Nupe language.

There is no doubt about his extraordinary evangelistic role in the early years of Christianity in Nigeria. Not for nothing is he regarded as the father of Anglicanism in Nigeria. “Today, well over 70 million Christians in Nigeria are his spiritual heirs,” Welby said in tribute to his pioneering efforts.

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