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Henry Townsend
Henry Townsend was an English missionary of the Church Missionary Society who worked among the Yoruba from the 1840s. He settled at Abeokuta in 1846, founded churches and schools, and in 1859 started Iwe Irohin, one of the first newspapers in Nigeria, printed in Yoruba. He became an influential adviser to Egba leaders and remained in Yoruba country until 1876.
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