(AFRICA) CAMPBELL ROBERT The Anglo African Volume I No 10 fo

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THE SECOND ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER IN WEST AFRICA (AFRICA.) CAMPBELL, ROBERT. The Anglo-African. Volume I, No. 10 for Saturday, August 8, 1863. Single folio sheet, folded to form four pages. Creases where folded with short closed tears at the outer margins; some slight discoloration; remnants of a postage stamp at the top margin. Lagos (Nigeria), 1863

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Jamaican-born Robert Campbell (1829-1880s?) accompanied Martin Delany on an expedition to explore the Niger Valley in 1859, to investigate the territory for possible emigration by free black Americans. Out of that journey came Delany's "Official report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party" (1861) and Robert Campbell's "Pilgrimage to My Motherland" (1861). While Delany chose to return to the United States in order to support his wife and children, Campbell returned to Lagos with his family. There he founded the Anglo-African in 1863. This issue bears information regarding Samuel Crowther, the noted tribal convert and minister as well as ongoing negotiations with the local chief Abbeokuta, and the formation of the "Africans' Commercial Association."
The first African-produced paper in West Africa was Charles Bannerman's Accra Herald, produced in 1858 in the Gold Coast (modern Ghana). The following year, the first Yoruba newspaper was published, Iwe Ihorin, 'The Paper with the News,' which cost 30 cowrie shells. Campbell's was the second English-language newspaper in West Africa. RARE. Other than microfilm, no copies located by OCLC, or any other reference consulted.