books.google.ca - Samuel Johnson (1846-1901) was an Anglican minister and historian renowned for his magisterial history of the Yoruba people. Born in Freetown in Sierra Leone and educated by the Church Missionary Society, Johnson was sent with his family to Idaban in Nigeria in 1857. He was ordained in 1880 and by 1897...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_History_of_the_Yorubas.html?id=7XSiGw4_qlAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe History of the Yorubas