Black and white photograph of the opening ceremony for the Methodist Church at Ikot Ekpene, in Akwa-Ibom state, Nigeria, in December 1933. Reverend W Groves hands the key to the church to Lieutenant Governor of the Southern Provinces of Nigeria, Captain Walter Buchanan-Smith. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, run by the Methodist Missionary Society.
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