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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.

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.