Hello ,Last Sunday, I was guest on the Soni Irabor Live (SiL) Show. In one hour of conversation with the broadcast legend, I went into a lot of detail about the Crowther Documentary Film Project; drawing on our research from when we launched in Septe...
Hello ,Just last week, I shared the link of the trailer to the Crowther documentary film project. Days later, we received news that a short film we made from the work done so far has been selected to screen at the iRepresent International Documentary...
Hello, .Early in January, we went out to conduct a vox pop: we asked Nigerians a few basic questions on the subject of our documentary film project, Bishop Crowther.Do you know Samuel Ajayi Crowther?Who was he?Where was he buried?To do this, and to p...
Hello, .One of the books I've had to read for the Crowther Documentary Project is "The First Church in Lagos" by Dr. Paul Osifodurin (Western Carolina University, USA).The book details the beginnings of the Holy Trinity Church in Ebute-Ero, built in...
Hello, .One of the books I've had to read for the Crowther Documentary Project is "The First Church in Lagos" by Dr. Paul Osifodurin (Western Carolina University, USA).The book details the beginnings of the Holy Trinity Church in Ebute-Ero, built in...
Hello, .Earlier this month, we went filming in and around the Cathedral Church of Christ (b.1929), Marina. Bishop Crowther attended Christmas service here, although in a previous building; it was the last time he would set foot in a church.He died si...
Hello ,New Year greetings. Here’s wishing you a year of many opportunities and memorable events. For the Bishop Crowther Project, the year started off with a half-hour interview on TVC’s breakfast programme. On 3rd of January, I was invited to t...
Dear ,Just before the Christmas holidays, the research team of the Bishop Crowther Project travelled to Ibadan on a research trip. Thanks to the Jadeas Trust, we had all-access to the library and archives of eminent historian, administrator and schol...
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 3rd December 2021. T...
The man who has occupied my thoughts for much of this year -- Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther – died 130 years ago this month, on 31 December 1891, aged 82. It is the reason why I’m working on a documentary and crowd-sourcing funds for it.As we hav...