Solomon Tilewa Ethelbert Willie Johnson was a Gambian Anglican bishop.
Education
He attended primary school at Banjul from 1962 to 1966. In 1974 he become a teacher at Gambia High School. He moved to Nigeria, where he studied at the Trinity College in Umuahia, from 1977 to 1980, earning a degree in Theology, in 1980.
He pursued his studies at the University of Durham, in England, from 1982 to 1985, winning a Bachelor in Theology with his dissertation The Impact of African Communal Ritual on Modern Christian Missions, 1821-1965.
Career
Johnson was ordained an Anglican deacon in 1979 and a priest in 1980. He was consecrated the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pongas in 1990, the first Gambian national to be so, which he was until his death. He was elected the ninth Primate and Archbishop of the Province of West Africa, on 28 September 2012, succeeding Justice Akrofi.
At the same time it was decided to divide the province in two internal provinces, the Province of Ghana, with Daniel Sarfo as their first archbishop, and the Province of West Africa, of which he also would be Archbishop.
He was a strong supporter of the Anglican realignment, attending GAFCON II, that took place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 21 to 26 October 2013. He died unexpectedly aged 59 years old, after collapsing while playing tennis on the evening of 21 January 2014.
He was taken to the Medical Research Council in Bakau-Fajara, where he was pronounced dead.