Mary Slessor: the Scottish mill girl who became “Mother of All the Peoples” in Calabar
Mary Slessor, a former mill worker from Dundee, arrived in Calabar in 1876 as a missionary. She lived among the Efik and Okoyong people, campaigned against…
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Thomas Birch Freeman: the Methodist missionary who built Cape Coast’s first chapel and went to Kumasi
Thomas Birch Freeman, born in England in 1809 to an African father and an English mother, arrived on the Gold Coast in January 1838 as a…