Dear ,

I’m happy to inform you that the team set out earlier this month on the first leg of the of the travels scheduled for the Bishop Crowther Documentary Film Project. We started in Badagry (on the western tip of Lagos) on 3^rd December 2021. 

That date is significant in the story of Bishop Crowther: it was the day in 1843, after returning from London as an ordained priest of the Church Missionary Society (CMS),that he first preached on the continent (Freetown, to be specific). His sermon was delivered in Yoruba to an African congregation. 

The team -- including researchers, writers, photographers, cinematographers, bloggers and interns – spent 4 days in the ancient, coconut-rich slavery town, before moving on to Abeokuta, through Ota (both in Ogun State). 

There are at least five more legs of these journeys -- officially tagged ‘Crowther Tours’ – still to be made. 

The team’s next road trip will be to Ibadan and Osoogun (Bishop Crowther’s birth place, and where he was taken as a slave i200 years ago, n 1821). We reckon that this should take us another week, after which we’ll return to Lagos and wind down our work for the time being. 

From research, we have been able to identify 195 communities Crowther visited while on his missionary duties. Work on the documentary will resume in January 2022. We are able to do this much, thanks to the donations we have received over the past weeks. 

There is still a lot that needs to be done as we follow In the Footsteps of Bishop Crowther. You may support with a donation using any of the options below: 

Donation link (int'l): https://gofund.me/78d607f5

Donation link (local): https://travu.ng/donate/

Cash transfers (local): Homestead Nig Ent (UBA Acct 1015558184)

If you’ll like to keep abreast with updates – off and on the road -- please follow us on social media as follows: 

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Pelu Awofeso

For: The Bishop Crowther Project