The History of the Yorubas Johnson Johnson Paperback Cambridge University Press

The History of the Yorubas\n\nFrom the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate\n\nThe first published account and standard reference for the history of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, first published in 1921.\n\nSamuel Johnson (Author), Obadiah Johnson (Edited by)\n\n9781108020992, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 30 September 2010\n\n750 pages\n21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.85 kg\n\nSamuel Johnson (1846\u20131901) was an Anglican minister and historian renowned for his magisterial history of the Yoruba people. Born in Freetown in Sierra Leone and educated by the Church Missionary Society, Johnson was sent with his family to Idaban in Nigeria in 1857. He was ordained in 1880 and by 1897 had finished the manuscript for The History of the Yorubas. However the original publisher mysteriously misplaced the manuscript. After Johnson's death his brother, Dr Obadiah Johnson, recompiled the text from Samuel's notes. This volume, first published in 1921,]