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ThrowBack Thursday: Ajayi Crowther – The Boy Slave Who Returned to Make a Difference in Nigeria’s History

April 19, 2022

Samuel Ajayi Crowther was born in about 1809 to a family of kingly heritage in South-Western Nigeria. Due to the incessant wars of conquests spanning across northern and southern Nigeria in the early 19th century, Fulani slave raiders captured Crowther with his family in 1821 and sold them to Portuguese slave traders when he was … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday: Ajayi Crowther – The Boy Slave Who Returned to Make a Difference in Nigeria’s History

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