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A newspaper report of the graduation ceremonies noted: "Among the 95 medical graduates, was a young lady of colour from West Africa, bearing the not inappropriate name Agnes
Yewande Savage, whose father is also a doctor. She gained the two prizes awarded to the most distinguished woman student of her
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to study medicine and she excelled in her studies. In her fourth year of medical school, she obtained first-class honours in all subjects, won a prize in
Diseases of the Skin and a medal in Forensic Medicine, making her the first woman in the history of Edinburgh to do so. She was awarded the Dorothy
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Prefect. Johnson regularly worked with Savage at the sick bay and later went on to also study medicine at the University of Edinburgh, becoming Ghana's first female medical doctor. Another West African woman medical pioneer who studied at both Achimota and
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year, and her success, to judge from her enthusiastic reception, was highly popular with her fellow undergraduates."
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Tetty, Charles (1985). "Medical
Practitioners of African Descent in Colonial Ghana".
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medical doctor, newspaper publisher and a 1900 Edinburgh graduate of
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and a teacher. While at
Achimota, she came into contact with
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Gilfillan
Memorial Prize as the best woman graduate in 1929.
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666:(1st ed.). Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
696:. 9 September 1929. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
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Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Medical School
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16:Scottish-Nigerian physician (1906–1964)
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662:Patton, Adell Jr. (13 April 1996).
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312:. At the urging of the headmaster,
213:in 1929 at the age of 23. In 1933,
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892:Scottish people of Yoruba descent
608:Ferry, Georgina (November 2018).
466:Mitchell, Henry (November 2016).
354:Korle-Bu Nurses Training College
275:Richard Gabriel Akinwande Savage
190:Richard Gabriel Akinwande Savage
157:Korle-Bu Nurses Training College
902:University and college founders
432:. 10 September 1964. p. 1.
872:Nigerian women medical doctors
857:Medical doctors from Edinburgh
832:Black British women scientists
283:George Watson's Ladies College
205:woman to train and qualify in
107:George Watson’s Ladies College
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862:Nigerian expatriates in Ghana
802:20th-century women physicians
709:"Agnes Yewande Savage – 1929"
693:The Townsville Daily Bulletin
628:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32827-7
470:. Centre of African Studies.
842:British expatriates in Ghana
382:Timeline of women in science
852:History of women in Nigeria
797:20th-century Nigerian women
580:The University of Edinburgh
267:Sierra Leone Creole descent
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142:woman in orthodox medicine
741:. Accra, Ghana: Ena Pubs.
368:, in St Paul's Hospital,
297:Medical career and legacy
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827:Black British scientists
259:Richard Akinwande Savage
245:Early life and education
178:Maggie S. Bowie (mother)
173:Richard Akinwande Savage
912:Yoruba women physicians
211:University of Edinburgh
112:University of Edinburgh
688:"Edinburg Graduations"
326:Susan de Graft-Johnson
279:Royal College of Music
102:Royal College of Music
822:Black British history
777:Savage family (Lagos)
737:Vieta, K. T. (1999).
622:(10161): 2258–2259.
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320:for four years as a
290:Edinburgh University
199:Agnes Yewande Savage
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757:The Daily Telegraph
273:). Her brother was
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314:Alec Garden Fraser
218:political activist
907:Yoruba physicians
497:CAS from the Edge
387:Women in medicine
346:Korle Bu Hospital
230:bachelor's degree
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787:1964 deaths
782:1906 births
175:Sr (father)
151:West Africa
147:Empowerment
74:Nationality
771:Categories
615:The Lancet
426:"Deaths".
414:References
303:Gold Coast
271:Scotswoman
121:Occupation
49:, Scotland
713:UncoverED
636:0140-6736
429:The Times
339:physician
331:Edinburgh
251:Edinburgh
224:pioneer,
192:(brother)
186:Relatives
125:Physician
68:, England
47:Edinburgh
752:"Deaths"
723:25 April
717:Archived
644:53713242
584:Archived
557:11617203
501:Archived
472:Archived
376:See also
318:Achimota
263:Nigerian
255:Scotland
86:Scottish
81:Nigerian
232:in the
166:Parents
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366:stroke
261:Sr (a
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640:S2CID
545:JSTOR
393:Notes
360:Death
350:Accra
257:, to
725:2020
668:ISBN
632:ISSN
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