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Title:Nigerian pioneer doctors and early West African politics
Author:Adeloye, Adelola
Year:1976
Periodical:Nigeria Magazine
Issue:121
Pages:2-24
Language:English
Geographic terms:Nigeria
English-speaking Africa
West Africa
Great Britain
Subjects:health personnel
political unification
colonialism
nationalism
Abstract:There exists a long and outstanding involvement of Nigerian doctors in the social and political activities of West Africa. Early physicians practised physic as well as politics. This article examines what the pioneer Nigerian doctors did for the socio-political evolution of West Africa: James Beale Africanus Horton, one of the pioneers of African nationalism; Nathaniel King, who contributed to the advancement of the social and political life of West Africa; Obadiah Johnson and Oguntola Sapara, both pioneer legislators of old Lagos; John Randle and Orisadipe Obasa, who in 1908 formed the People's Union, the first political party in Lagos, and Akinwande Savage, originator of the idea of a political conference of West African countries (which was held in Accra in March 1920). Ref., photographs.
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