People have been carrying this falsehood about that Bishop Ajayi-Crowther authored the first ever book in the Igbo language. I have read Bishop Ajayi-Crowther's narrative sojourn to Igbo land, Onitsha to be specific. Bishop Ajayi-Crowther visited Igbo land twice, and on both occasions, he spent less than a week. So where exactly did Bishop Ajayi-Crowther learn Igbo enough to be proficient enough to write a book in Igbo?

Igbo language is notoriously difficult to learn, and unless you have Igbo parents, or lived amongst Igbos, the chances of you being fluent in the language is next to zero

But lets forget where Ajayi-Crowther learnt Igbo, and turn to the book its self. The only thing people have managed to show us about this book is a preface titled "Isoama Ibo Primer" and "Vocabulary of the Ibo Language". Isoama means nothing in the Igbo language (unless he meant Isuama). How does a one page preface become a book?

If anyone claims that Ajayi-Crowther wrote a book in Igbo, show us the book! Show us the pages! Tell us what was written in the book. A one page preface written in English language is no book, let alone an Igbo book

If nobody can show us pages of this so called book, or tell what was written in it, then there is no book but a book of lies

Is there any documentary evidence he preached in igbo language when he visited the East?

gidgiddy:
People have been carrying this falsehood about that Bishop Ajayi-Crowther authored the first ever book in the Igbo language. I have read Bishop Ajayi-Crowther's narrative sojourn to Igbo land, Onitsha to be specific. Bishop Ajayi-Crowther visited Igbo land twice, and on both occasions, he spent less than a week. So where exactly did Bishop Ajayi-Crowther learn Igbo enough to be proficient enough to write a book in Igbo?

Igbo language is notoriously difficult to learn, and unless you have Igbo parents, or lived amongst Igbos, the chances of you being fluent in the language is next to zero

But lets forget where Ajayi-Crowther learnt Igbo, and turn to the book its self. The only thing people have managed to show us about this book is a preface titled "Isoama Ibo Primer" and "Vocabulary of the Ibo Language". Isoama means nothing in the Igbo language (unless he meant Isuama). How does a one page preface become a book?

If anyone claims that Ajayi-Crowther wrote a book in Igbo, show us the book! Show us the pages! Tell us what was written in the book. A one page preface written in English language is no book, let alone an Igbo book

If nobody can show us pages of this so called book, or tell what was written in it, then there is no book but a book of lies

They're coming for you

How dare you destroy one of the delusions keeping them going?


Like you said Igbo is by far very hard to learn due it's huge diversity of dialects writting forms and intonations and all the kpọm elu and kpọm ala . Igbo has 36 alphabets that larger than any major language in Nigeria.

Due to the nature of my trade and customer networks I have been able to learn Hausa fluently and Yoruba too due to my knowledge in Yoruba I also hear little igala anyone who speaks Yoruba won't have problem understanding a huge part of igala language

That can't be said about Igbo language. There are just huge variations of saying one thing in Igbo

According to my brother who did project on researching the dynamics of Igbo language . While he was doing his project we had a conversation where he told me that during his project with some other coursemates about igbo language they discovered that Igbo dialect changes every 10km on average some are just 1km there is slight change

I just laughed when I heard the lies about him writting a book in Igbo

gidgiddy:
People have been carrying this falsehood about that Bishop Ajayi-Crowther authored the first ever book in the Igbo language. I have read Bishop Ajayi-Crowther's narrative sojourn to Igbo land, Onitsha to be specific. Bishop Ajayi-Crowther visited Igbo land twice, and on both occasions, he spent less than a week. So where exactly did Bishop Ajayi-Crowther learn Igbo enough to be proficient enough to write a book in Igbo?

Igbo language is notoriously difficult to learn, and unless you have Igbo parents, or lived amongst Igbos, the chances of you being fluent in the language is next to zero

But lets forget where Ajayi-Crowther learnt Igbo, and turn to the book its self. The only thing people have managed to show us about this book is a preface titled "Isoama Ibo Primer" and "Vocabulary of the Ibo Language". Isoama means nothing in the Igbo language (unless he meant Isuama). How does a one page preface become a book?

If anyone claims that Ajayi-Crowther wrote a book in Igbo, show us the book! Show us the pages! Tell us what was written in the book. A one page preface written in English language is no book, let alone an Igbo book

If nobody can show us pages of this so called book, or tell what was written in it, then there is no book but a book of lies

I don't get you. Instead of bringing proof to back your claim you want us to do that for you.
Bring out evidence that Bishop Ajayi Crowther did not write the first igbo book or you go explain tire 😒

There u have it

https://www.nairaland.com/6833136/picture-copy-isoama-ibo-primer-written#107300607

Who take yoruba history serious.

goodnessme1:
Who take yoruba history serious.

ode 😂😂 if not for Ajayi crowder u for still dey inside jungle chasing monkeys and lizards with stone

Scarrr:
There u have it

https://www.nairaland.com/6833136/picture-copy-isoama-ibo-primer-written#107300607

First of all there's nothing like

Isoama in Igbo

It is meaningless in Igbo as it is


Second nobody wants to show us the content of the book that's why I believed this is just a propaganda

Scarrr:
ode 😂😂 if not for Ajayi crowder u for still dey inside jungle chasing monkeys and lizards with stone

Where's the content of the book?



There's nothing like isoama as single word in Igbo! It's completely meaninglessness

A book supposed to be educating is had a faulty name with no meaning in Igbo

KwuoteYourFada:


Where's the content of the book?



There's nothing like isoama as single word in Igbo! It's completely meaninglessness

A book supposed to be educating is had a faulty name with no meaning in Igbo

wetin u Kno...God bless the bishop,if not ..ppl like u fr still dey chase lizards with stone inside jungle

Scarrr:
wetin u Kno...God bless the bishop,if not ..ppl like u fr still dey chase lizards with stone inside jungle

Is that your epic come back? Drab little thing.

Propaganda tribe of liars I have checked all his books all are available


Why can't we see the so called Igbo one he wrote?

I have searched up and down for that book . Those that said they have it didn't show the inside


The name of the book means nothing in Igbo


A supposed vocabulary book written by someone who barely spent a month in SE

Osim "isoama" which means nothing. No kpọm whatsoever


Lie lie tribe

Sangoamadioha1:



I don't get you. Instead of bringing proof to back your claim you want us to do that for you.
Bring out evidence that Bishop Ajayi Crowther did not write the first igbo book or you go explain tire 😒

The point is bishop Ajayi Crowther did write any book in Igbo.


We haven't seen the book,if you have see the book then prove him wrong.

gidgiddy:
People have been carrying this falsehood about that Bishop Ajayi-Crowther authored the first ever book in the Igbo language. I have read Bishop Ajayi-Crowther's narrative sojourn to Igbo land, Onitsha to be specific. Bishop Ajayi-Crowther visited Igbo land twice, and on both occasions, he spent less than a week. So where exactly did Bishop Ajayi-Crowther learn Igbo enough to be proficient enough to write a book in Igbo?

Igbo language is notoriously difficult to learn, and unless you have Igbo parents, or lived amongst Igbos, the chances of you being fluent in the language is next to zero

But lets forget where Ajayi-Crowther learnt Igbo, and turn to the book its self. The only thing people have managed to show us about this book is a preface titled "Isoama Ibo Primer" and "Vocabulary of the Ibo Language". Isoama means nothing in the Igbo language (unless he meant Isuama). How does a one page preface become a book?

If anyone claims that Ajayi-Crowther wrote a book in Igbo, show us the book! Show us the pages! Tell us what was written in the book. A one page preface written in English language is no book, let alone an Igbo book

If nobody can show us pages of this so called book, or tell what was written in it, then there is no book but a book of lies

According to the web search results, Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther did write an Igbo book in 1857.
The book was called **Isoama-Ibo: A Primer** and it was the first book in Igbo language ever published¹.
The book had 17 pages, with the Igbo alphabet, words, phrases, sentence patterns, the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and translations of the first chapters of Matthew's Gospel².
Crowther was a missionary linguist who learned Igbo from Simon Jonas, an Igbo man who came from emancipated slave families who settled in Freetown². Crowther also wrote a vocabulary of the Ibo language in 1882, which was the first comprehensive dictionary in Igbo².

Crowther was a descendant of King Abiodun, an Alaafin of the Oyo Empire, and he was also a patriot who advocated for African evangelization and economic development³⁴. He was the grandfather of Herbert Macaulay, the founder of Nigeria's first political party².



Source:
(1) (PDF) Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1807 1891): The Root, Faith .... https://www.academia.edu/29405993/Bishop_Samuel_Ajayi_Crowther_1807_1891_The_Root_Faith_Mission_and_Legacy.
(2) True, Samuel Ajayi Crowther authored first ever book written in Igbo .... https://dubawa.org/true-samuel-ajayi-crowther-authored-first-ever-book-written-in-igbo-language/.
(3) Samuel Ajayi Crowther | Zaccheus Onumba Dibiaezue Memorial ... - ZODML. https://zodml.org/discover-nigeria/people/historicalpeople/samuel-ajayi-crowther.
(4) A Patriot to the Core: Bishop Ajayi Crowder - Crowther, Ajayi .... https://www.abebooks.com/9789780293147/Patriot-Core-Bishop-Ajayi-Crowder-9780293140/plp.
(5) en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Ajayi_Crowther.



goodnessme1 take note.

Sangoamadioha1:



I don't get you. Instead of bringing proof to back your claim you want us to do that for you.
Bring out evidence that Bishop Ajayi Crowther did not write the first igbo book or you go explain tire 😒

The proof is that we've seen all his works. And Thier pages

Why is the so called isoama (which actually means nothing in Igbo ) does not have pages?

All his books have soft copies and we've seen thier pages but the so called ibo vocabulary pages isn't available anywhere.

Someone who barely spent a month in SE is now writting vocabularies

The headings of his book "isoama" Ibo means nothing in Igbo language

Sangoamadioha1:






According to the web search results, Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther did write an Igbo book in 1857.
The book was called **Isoama-Ibo: A Primer** and it was the first book in Igbo language ever published¹.
The book had 17 pages, with the Igbo alphabet, words, phrases, sentence patterns, the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and translations of the first chapters of Matthew's Gospel².
Crowther was a missionary linguist who learned Igbo from Simon Jonas, an Igbo man who came from emancipated slave families who settled in Freetown². Crowther also wrote a vocabulary of the Ibo language in 1882, which was the first comprehensive dictionary in Igbo².

Crowther was a descendant of King Abiodun, an Alaafin of the Oyo Empire, and he was also a patriot who advocated for African evangelization and economic development³⁴. He was the grandfather of Herbert Macaulay, the founder of Nigeria's first political party².



Source:
(1) (PDF) Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1807 1891): The Root, Faith .... https://www.academia.edu/29405993/Bishop_Samuel_Ajayi_Crowther_1807_1891_The_Root_Faith_Mission_and_Legacy.
(2) True, Samuel Ajayi Crowther authored first ever book written in Igbo .... https://dubawa.org/true-samuel-ajayi-crowther-authored-first-ever-book-written-in-igbo-language/.
(3) Samuel Ajayi Crowther | Zaccheus Onumba Dibiaezue Memorial ... - ZODML. https://zodml.org/discover-nigeria/people/historicalpeople/samuel-ajayi-crowther.
(4) A Patriot to the Core: Bishop Ajayi Crowder - Crowther, Ajayi .... https://www.abebooks.com/9789780293147/Patriot-Core-Bishop-Ajayi-Crowder-9780293140/plp.
(5) en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Ajayi_Crowther.



goodnessme1 take note.

Oga shows is the isoama own

Let's see the page


I'll be completely delighted to see it
I swear
I'm saying this with all sincerety

Scarrr:
There u have it

https://www.nairaland.com/6833136/picture-copy-isoama-ibo-primer-written#107300607

In other words, the only evidence people have that Ajayi-Crowther write a book in Igbo is what was said on a one page preface? Are people this easily fooled?

KwuoteYourFada:


Oga shows is the isoama own

Let's see the page


I'll be completely delighted to see it
I swear
I'm saying this with all sincerety

Look for it yourself. I have done my part in educating you for free, the rest is up to you 😏

goodnessme1:
Your mot!her ode.


If not for Igbos that came and show you how human should look,you will be moving around with tiger face.

oloriburuku.. include photos from here as well na.

https://www.nairaland.com/5844811/igbo-tribal-marks-meaning

Even till now,we still dey take care una,if we SW states decide to close borders tomorrow your own don finish be that 😂.

gidgiddy:


In other words, the only evidence people have that Ajayi-Crowther write a book in Igbo is what was said on a one page preface? Are people this easily fooled?

oga ...deny all u want.......na we show u road..na we comot una frm bondage and darkness 😂

KwuoteYourFada:

Is that your epic come back? Drab little thing.

Propaganda tribe of liars I have checked all his books all are available


Why can't we see the so called Igbo one he wrote?

I have searched up and down for that book . Those that said they have it didn't show the inside


The name of the book means nothing in Igbo


A supposed vocabulary book written by someone who barely spent a month in SE

Osim "isoama" which means nothing. No kpọm whatsoever


Lie lie tribe

You don't know those people.

That was how they lied that Lt. Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi asked Northern soldiers to kill him together with Ironsi.


Instead of confronting Northern soldiers for killing their brother.


They have told so many lies that many believe to be truth.


Revisionist and lie lie tribe.

Scarrr:
wetin u Kno...God bless the bishop,if not ..ppl like u fr still dey chase lizards with stone inside jungle

. . .And yet NO ONE has seen nor read this so-called book in Igbo language written by a yoruba slave called crowder.

Sangoamadioha1:






According to the web search results, Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther did write an Igbo book in 1857.
The book was called **Isoama-Ibo: A Primer** and it was the first book in Igbo language ever published¹.
The book had 17 pages, with the Igbo alphabet, words, phrases, sentence patterns, the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and translations of the first chapters of Matthew's Gospel².
Crowther was a missionary linguist who learned Igbo from Simon Jonas, an Igbo man who came from emancipated slave families who settled in Freetown². Crowther also wrote a vocabulary of the Ibo language in 1882, which was the first comprehensive dictionary in Igbo².

Crowther was a descendant of King Abiodun, an Alaafin of the Oyo Empire, and he was also a patriot who advocated for African evangelization and economic development³⁴. He was the grandfather of Herbert Macaulay, the founder of Nigeria's first political party².



Source:
(1) (PDF) Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1807 1891): The Root, Faith .... https://www.academia.edu/29405993/Bishop_Samuel_Ajayi_Crowther_1807_1891_The_Root_Faith_Mission_and_Legacy.
(2) True, Samuel Ajayi Crowther authored first ever book written in Igbo .... https://dubawa.org/true-samuel-ajayi-crowther-authored-first-ever-book-written-in-igbo-language/.
(3) Samuel Ajayi Crowther | Zaccheus Onumba Dibiaezue Memorial ... - ZODML. https://zodml.org/discover-nigeria/people/historicalpeople/samuel-ajayi-crowther.
(4) A Patriot to the Core: Bishop Ajayi Crowder - Crowther, Ajayi .... https://www.abebooks.com/9789780293147/Patriot-Core-Bishop-Ajayi-Crowder-9780293140/plp.
(5) en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Ajayi_Crowther.



goodnessme1 take note.

Really?

He learned Igbo from Igbo man Called Simon Jonas


Can we see the content of the book?

obiekunie01:


. . .And yet NO ONE has seen nor read this so-called book in Igbo language written by a yoruba slave called crowder.

why are u igbos pained? What's the big deal about him liberating your ancestors?😏

Scarrr:
why are u igbos pained? What's the big deal about him liberating your ancestors?😏

Why not come up with evidence.



Or are you pained that yoruba lies has been boosted.

Ballmer:

How can someone that cannot pronounce the word "Igbo" very well, write a book in Igbo dialect?

goodnessme1:
Why not come up with evidence.



Or are you pained that yoruba lies has been boosted.

what evidence do u need again? It's no news bishop Ajayi crowder showed you Igbos the light....

Scarrr:
what evidence do u need again? It's no news bishop Ajayi crowder showed you Igbos the light....

Let's see the pages of the book

So far the

Isoama means nothing in Igbo

Sangoamadioha1:



Look for it yourself. I have done my part in educating you for free, the rest is up to you 😏

Show us the pdfs..

I have the pdf's of all his works even to services he conducted why is his so called milestone book about Igbo primer being hidden.

His Yoruba works are out there


Isoama means nothing in our language

Someone who writes Igbo as ibo isn't fit to write anything about Igbos

The guy didn't even spend one month in SE

Ajayi crowther writting a Ibo primer ibo o not even Igbo hahaha it's just one of the lies your tribe generated to boost Thier low self esteem issues


Lie lie people tueh!


Your lies will continue to be exposed

Scarrr:
what evidence do u need again? It's no news bishop Ajayi crowder showed you Igbos the light....

Lolz wish of yorubas revisionist.