About Napoleon Barleycorn
Napoleon Barleycorn was a missionary.
Napoleon Barleycorn was a Primitive Methodist missionary in Spanish Guinea, a Krio Fernandino of Igbo descent, who sent his sons to be educated at Bourne College in Quinton, England. One of his sons was William Napoleon Barleycorn, the well-known writer of the first Bube language primer.
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