Alfred Saker (July 21, 1814 in Wrotham, Kent — March 12, 1880 in Peckham) was a British missionary who founded the Cameroon city of Victoria, now Limbé (since 1982), in 1858.He translated the Bible into Duala between 1862 and 1872.
An English Baptist missionary, Alfred Saker arrived on the island of Fernando Po in 1844, shortly after Joseph Merrick and Joseph Jackson Fuller, and established a mission near present-day Douala at the mouth of the Wouri River in 1845. He rerurned to Fernando Po in about 1850.
In 1858, the Spanish authorities expelled the Protestant missionaries from Fernando Po and Alfred Saker returned to the mainland with a group of liberated slaves, and bought a large tract of land (16 km x 8 km) from King William of Bimbia. The small group built a school, a church, and other buildings for the mission, thereby founding the city of Victoria, now Limbé (since 1982). They also faced problems of health or the hostility of the population. They opened churches, dispensaries and centers of care and trained a great number of Cameroonian pastors, tailors, shoe-makers, masons and carpenters who helped them build the Church of Béthel in 1860.
Considered by David Livingstone to be the most influential missionary in West Africa. He envisioned great possibilities and tried to convince the English government to make this area a Crown Colony. A Baptist school in Limbe, Saker Baptist College, is named after him.