Agnes Yewande Savage
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Agnes Yewande Savage
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Agnes Yewande Savage was a Nigerian medical doctor and the first West African woman to train and qualify in orthodox medicine. Savage was the first West African woman to receive a university degree in medicine, graduating with first-class honours from the University of Edinburgh in 1929 at the age of 23. In 1933, Sierra Leonean political activist and higher education pioneer, Edna Elliott-Horton became the second West African woman university graduate and the first to earn a bachelor's degree in
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Scottish-Nigerian physician (1906–1964)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Yewande_Savage
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2016-12-30T23:41:40Z
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2024-09-03T12:10:07Z
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