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Hope Waddell mission begins at Calabar

Presbyterian missionary Hope Waddell arrived in Old Calabar, where mission education and Christian institutions developed alongside Efik trading society.

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1846

Hope Waddell mission begins at Calabar

Presbyterian missionary Hope Waddell arrived in Old Calabar, where mission education and Christian institutions developed alongside Efik trading society.

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Presbyterian missionary Hope Waddell arrived in Old Calabar, where mission education and Christian institutions developed alongside Efik trading society. Calabar later became one of the few towns with elective representation under the Clifford Constitution.

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