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Agiya Tree Monument

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19: 27: 247: 194: 54:) close to the Badagry Town Hall. The Agiya tree was a 160 feet (49 m) tree with a circumference of 30 feet (9.1 m). Significantly remarkable for being the tree under which Christianity was first preached in Nigeria by 307: 231: 317: 172: 288: 18: 254: 224: 59: 322: 312: 281: 217: 62:
on 24 September 1842, the tree lived for over 300 years until it was uprooted by a storm on 20 June 1959.
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Egun
Thomas Birch Freeman
Henry Townsend
National Mirror
History in Africa
An Unsung Hero of the Church and Society: A Biography of Dominic Ogbonna Dioka
"Badagry: Recapturing lost history"
Yoruba Gurus: Indigenous Production of Knowledge in Africa
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978-0-86543-699-2
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Lagos
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Monuments and memorials in Nigeria
2012 sculptures
1950s individual tree deaths

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