Napoleon Barleycorn

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Napoleon Barleycorn was a Primitive Methodist missionary in Spanish Guinea, a Krio Fernandino of Igbo descent, [1] who sent his sons to be educated at Bourne College in Quinton, England. One of his sons was William Napoleon Barleycorn, the well-known writer of the first Bube language primer.

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References

  1. Sundiata, I. K. (1996). From Slaving to Neoslavery: The Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolition, 1827-1930. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 149. ISBN   9780299145101.