1846-1901 Samuel Johnson, Historian

contributed december 19, 2009 to blackpast.com by: AARON MODICA

(photo by Dr. Michael Dorrtmont, courtesy of Olayemi & the Nigerian Nostalgia Project Archives)

Rev. Samuel Johnson was a nineteenth-century Anglican priest and historian of the Yoruba ethnic group of Nigeria. Samuel Johnson is most noted for his manuscript "The History of the Yorubas", which was posthumously published in 1921….Samuel Johnson’s education began under the guidance of CMS missionary David Hinderer in Ibadan and was completed with Gottlieb Buhler at the CMS Training Institution in Abeokuta. There Samuel Johnson was educated in Scripture and Catechism, Greek, Modern and Medieval History, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Natural History.