Samuel Johnson
Nigerian historian
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- Bachelors History University of Lagos
- Masters African History University of Ibadan
- PhD African History University of Nigeria
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, The Rev. Samuel Johnson was an Anglican priest and historian of the Yoruba. Biography Samuel Johnson was born a recaptive Creole in Freetown, Sierra Leone, as the third of seven children of Henry Erugunjinmi Johnson and Sarah Johnson on June 24, 1846. His father, who gave himself the Yoruba name Erugunjinmi, was born in 1810 in the town of Oyo-Ile, capital of the Oyo Empire. Henry was an Omoba of the Oyo clan, and was a grandson of the 18th-century alaafin Abiodun. He was later captured in the Atlantic Slave Trade but fortunately was rerouted to Sierra Leone, like many Yorubas, such as Samuel Ajayi Crowther and others. He later met Samuel Johnson, whose name he gave to his son. Johnson had 2 older brothers, Henry and Nathaniel, and a younger brother, Obadiah. Henry and Nathaniel both became missionaries and archdeacons like Samuel, while Obadiah became the first indigenous Yoruba medical doctor. He completed his education at the Church Missionary Society Training Institute and subsequently taught during what became known as the Yoruba civil war.
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