Henry Johnson was Archdeacon of The Upper Niger [1] from 1878 [2] to 1891. [3]
Johnson was born in 1840 as an Omoba of the Oyo people. [4] He trained for the priesthood at Church Missionary Society College, Islington. [5] He was ordained deacon at St. George's Cathedral, Sierra Leone in 1866, and priest in 1867. Johnson served at Fourah Bay, Sherbro [6] and Lokoja. He was appointed an honorary M.A. of Cambridge University in 1886. [7]
Johnson died in 1901. [8]
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Samuel Ajayi Crowther, was a Yoruba linguist, clergyman, and the first African Anglican bishop of West Africa. Born in Osogun, he and his family were captured by slave raiders when he was about twelve years old. This took place during the Yoruba civil wars, notably the Owu wars of 1821–1829, where his village Osogun was sacked. Ajayi was later on resold to Portuguese slave dealers, where he was put on board to be transported to the New World through the Atlantic.
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The Sierra Leone Creole people are an ethnic group of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Creole people are descendants of freed African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Liberated African slaves who settled in the Western Area of Sierra Leone between 1787 and about 1885. The colony was established by the British, supported by abolitionists, under the Sierra Leone Company as a place for freedmen. The settlers called their new settlement Freetown. Today, the Sierra Leone Creoles are 1.2 percent of the population of Sierra Leone.
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John Walmsley was an English Anglican missionary bishop for the Anglican Diocese of Sierra Leone in the early twentieth century.
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