Agnes Yewande Savage

Scottish-Nigerian physician

Agnes Yewande Savage was born on February 21-1906. She died in 1964. She is a Nigerian doctor and first woman at West Africa to get a college degree in medicine.[1][2][3][4][5]

References

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  1. Mitchell, Henry (November 2016). "Dr Agnes Yewande Savage – West Africa's First Woman Doctor (1906-1964)". Centre of African Studies. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019.
  2. "CAS Students to Lead Seminar on University's African Alumni, Pt. IV: Agnes Yewande Savage". CAS from the Edge. 16 November 2016. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 2018-05-31.
  3. Tetty, Charles (1985). "Medical Practitioners of African Descent in Colonial Ghana". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 18 (1): 139–144. doi:10.2307/217977. JSTOR 217977. PMID 11617203.
  4. "Agnes Yewande Savage (1906 – 1964)". The University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 2018-11-24. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  5. Ferry, Georgina (November 2018). "Agnes Yewande Savage, Susan Ofori-Atta, and Matilda Clerk: three pioneering doctors". The Lancet. 392 (10161): 2258–2259. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32827-7. ISSN 0140-6736. S2CID 53713242.