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''A true artist. A brilliant writer. An original thinker'' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yorùbá Boy Running charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther''s miraculous journey from slave to liberator, boy to man, running to resisting

''Run, Àjàyí, run!''

The day the Malian slave traders invaded the Nigerian town of Òsogùn, thirteen-year-old Àjàyí''s life was split in two.

Before, there was his childhood, surrounded by friends and family, watched over by the ancient Yorùbá gods of forest and water, earth and sky. After: capture, slavery - and release, into the service of a new god, his own culture left far behind. So Àjàyí becomes Samuel Crowther - missionary, linguist, minister - and abolitionist: driven to negotiate against his own people to end the miserable trade in human beings which destroyed his family.

Drawing on the prolific writings of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Biyi Bándélé has created a many-voiced, kaleidoscopic portrait of an extraordinary

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/4/2024
      ISBN13: 9780241562697, 978-0241562697
      ISBN10: 0241562694
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''A true artist. A brilliant writer. An original thinker'' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

      Yorùbá Boy Running charts Samuel Ajayi Crowther''s miraculous journey from slave to liberator, boy to man, running to resisting

      ''Run, Àjàyí, run!''

      The day the Malian slave traders invaded the Nigerian town of Òsogùn, thirteen-year-old Àjàyí''s life was split in two.

      Before, there was his childhood, surrounded by friends and family, watched over by the ancient Yorùbá gods of forest and water, earth and sky. After: capture, slavery - and release, into the service of a new god, his own culture left far behind. So Àjàyí becomes Samuel Crowther - missionary, linguist, minister - and abolitionist: driven to negotiate against his own people to end the miserable trade in human beings which destroyed his family.

      Drawing on the prolific writings of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Biyi Bándélé has created a many-voiced, kaleidoscopic portrait of an extraordinary

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