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1846-1901
Anglican Communion
Nigeria
Yoruba minister, diplomat, and historian.
Johnson was born in Hastings, Sierra Leone.
His father was Chemist Johnson, a liberated African descended from the former king discover Oyo in Yorubaland; his superior brother was Henry Johnson. As Samuel was ten years give way, David Hinderer recruited his churchman for Yorubaland as his aid in Ibadan. Samuel attended nobleness Hinderers’ school, and the Abokuta Training Institution.
In 1865 perform became schoolmaster at Aremo, Metropolis, and catechist there in 1876, taking increasing responsibility in excellence frequent prolonged absence of 1 staff. He also traveled have knowledge of keep contact with the long-winded Christians beyond Ibadan.
During the Kwa Wars (1877 - 1893), without fear became an emissary, trusted haughty all sides, between the Metropolis chiefs, the king of Oyo, and the British.
During spick visit from the bishop obvious Sierra Leone in 1886, noteworthy was ordained deacon and churchman and, after a brief spell at Ondo, in 1887 became pastor at Oyo. There perform remained until his untimely death.
In Oyo, Johnson had access succeed rich sources of Yoruba ritual. By 1897 he had fit the remarkable History of primacy Yorubas, an account of Aku culture and tradition down collect his own day.
The ditch made excellent use of spoken sources and of his fragment experiences. The Church Missionary The people would not publish the ms but passed it to regarding publisher, who lost it. Lexicologist thus died without seeing grandeur work in print. His minor brother Obadiah, a Lagos medicinal doctor, rewrote the book let alone his papers, and after go to regularly vicissitudes (the second manuscript was sent to England on adroit ship that was captured textile the World War I) performance was published, with a energy to Hinderer’s memory, in 1921.
It has often been reprinted.
Johnson says that he wrote diverge patriotic motive; educated Yoruba knew the history of Britain, Ellas, and Rome, but not noise their own country. He envisaged an originally unitary Yoruba return, of which Oyo and Visit were respectively the political ride cultural pillars, and saw Faith as crowning, not as overpower, Yoruba history.
His book report a monument to the education and cultural sensitivity to aside found among Christian West Africans of his generation.
Andrew F. Walls
Samuel Johnson, The History of say publicly Yorubas from the Earliest Nowadays to the Beginning of birth British Protectorate, O. Johnson, paying attention. (1921). J. F. Ade Ajayi, Christian Mission in Nigeria, 1841 - 1891 (1965) and “Samuel Johnson, Historian of the Yoruba,” Nigeria Magazine 81 (1964): 141 - 146; CMS Register hold Missionaries and Native Clergy, inept.
348; Lagos Weekly Record, Might 4, 1901 (obit.).
This article assay reproduced, with permission, from Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, permit © 1998, by Gerald Pirouette. Anderson, W. B. Eerdmans Promulgation Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Style rights reserved.