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The CMS mission and Crowther, how and why Yoruba people converted to two world religions, the British annexation, indirect rule and what it did to kingship, and the making of "Yoruba" as one identity.
Captured as a boy at Òṣogun and sold three times in a day, he became the first African Anglican bishop, wrote the first serious Yoruba grammar and dictionary, translated the Bible into Yoruba, and was broken at the end of his life by younger European missionaries.
James "Holy" Johnson, Mọjọlá Agbébí and the generation of Sierra Leonean returnee clergy who took mission Christianity, found it would not admit them to leadership, and built African churches instead.
The pastor at Ọ̀yọ́ who wrote the book that made Yoruba history, the manuscript's loss and reconstruction, and the generation of Lagos men who first wrote Yoruba people into the record themselves.
A comprehensive historical and institutional analysis of the Ondó kingdom from its sixteenth-century founding under Queen Pupupu to its contemporary political structure.
A comprehensive historical examination of Badagry, covering its Ogu and Yoruba origins, Atlantic commercial rise, confederated political structure, missionary encounter, and modern heritage.
Samuel Àjàyí Crowther was an enslaved Yoruba youth who became the first African Anglican bishop, standardizer of the written Yoruba language, and primary translator of the Yoruba Bible.
The life, diplomatic mediation, and historiographical legacy of the Anglican clergyman whose posthumously published 1921 masterwork established the foundation of modern Yoruba historical writing.