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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Nigeria church history
Garrick Sokari Braide: the Niger Delta prophet who led a mass revival in 1915
Garrick Sokari Braide, a Kalabari evangelist from the Niger Delta, led a mass revival from about 1915 in which thousands abandoned traditional shrines. Called Elijah II…
A steamroller driver left his job after hearing a call. The 1930 Ilesa revival led by Joseph Ayo Babalola
Joseph Ayo Babalola, a steamroller operator with the Public Works Department, led a revival at Oke Ooye in Ilesa in 1930 that drew huge crowds. The…
Captured as a boy and freed from a slave ship, Samuel Ajayi Crowther became Africa’s first Anglican bishop
Samuel Ajayi Crowther was taken as a slave in 1821, freed by the British navy in 1822 and educated in Sierra Leone. He translated the Bible…