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George William Johnson
George William Johnson was a Sierra Leone-born tailor, one of the Saro returnees who settled in Yoruba country in the mid-19th century. In 1865 he organised the Egba United Board of Management at Abeokuta, an attempt to create a modern government with customs revenue and a secretariat to defend Egba independence against the British colony of Lagos.
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