A travel writer, tourism journalist, and culture researcher, Pelu Awofeso have asserted that Bishop Ajayi Crowther should be given a posthumous national honour.Awofeso said that his documentary project on Bishop Ajayi Crowther, the linguist, and sage, was driven by a need to tell the story of a man who contributed immensely in the areas of language translation, agriculture, commerce, and culture development to his homeland, Nigeria before she attained independence.
“What most Nigerians also don’t know is that he led the translation of the Bible into other local languages,” he said.In the course of his research for his documentary, Awofeso learnt that Bishop Crowther spoke 13 different languages, including Greek, Latin, Arabic, Creole, Ibo, Hausa among others. He also discovered that he was first trained as a carpenter and that he bagged an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1864.
Source: Holiday News (holidaynews.net)
Yes indeed
Boring people it's fake it didn't happened
I bet you Few Nigerian Teenagers know who he is. With the way Nigeria dey go, in 10 years time no one would even remember him.
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