The Journey of the First Black Bishop

About the Book

Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther was a true son of Africa in character, dilligence, strategic approach to issues, methodologically independent and a deep thinking person. He was taken into slavery not out of his own making or voluntary acceptability but out of providence and the making of human nature. He was destined to go through the ordeal of slavery inorder for him to learn the methodology of how he would release his other brethrens still wallowing in the bondage of slavery and abject poverty. Without Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther's ordeal, efforts and strategic planning, the fire of development we now see burning across the continent of Africa today would have been long extinguished. He single handedly planted the tree of unity not only in his home country - Nigeria alone, but across the length and breadth of his beloved continent, which other people from other nations of the world had written off and labelled the dark continent. He brought oil and lamp for us to see the dangerous path that we were formerly trodding and elevated the status of a black person in the committee of world nations. His grandson Albert Macaulay was undisputably the father of politics in Nigeria while others who struggled with his grandfather in the vanguard of education, economic freedom and total destruction of slaverery in Africa also had their own place of recognition in the land of the continent.

About the Author

Chief Olu. Adeuyan is blessed with passion for knowledge search in all the key geographical locations of the world. He received his B. Sc (Hons) Applied Geology from Kiev Geological College in 1971; LLB (Hons) - JD Law Degree from University of Wolverhampton - UK in 1995 and his MBA Information Technology as Major from Morgan State University, Baltimore Maryland, in the year 2000 class. He has worked with many reputable engineering companies across the globe. He was one of the first group of Nigerian scientists deployed from the Geological Survey of Nigeria in 1971 to work with the Russian scientists that investigated and form the mineral exploration base for the nation's Iron and Steel Complex at Aja-okuta mill. Working for the Federal Government of Nigeria under this national scheme for many years and attained the position of Deputy Chief Geologist, he opted out to form his own company known and called Geotek (Nig) Services Ltd, a Consulting firm on Geological and Engineering business as its President. In 1991, he moved to the United Kingdom for fear of political persecution from the hands of the then military junta ruling his country-Nigeria. In London where he sojourned, he worked for some Engineering, Law, and low ebb firms to make two ends meet and to pay for his education while in the Law School. in 1995, after graduating from the Law School, he moved to the United States to join his family that were already in the States. Here in the States, he continued to pursue his passion for knowledge. He enrolled at the School of Business studies, Morgan State University and in the year 2000, he graduated with good grade. He went back to his basic engineering profession to work for some Engineering firms as Soil Advisor and Consultant. He is now retired to become a writer and business consultant. He has authored six books on different topics ranging from religious to business and from politics to personalties. He is widely travelled across the globe and happily married with children and grandchildren.