Benjamin Quartey-Papafio

Benjamin Quartey-Papafio
Quartey-Papafio, c. 1878 – c. 1894
Born
Benjamin William Quarteyquaye Quartey-Papafio

(1859-06-25)25 June 1859
Died14 September 1924 (1924-09-15) (aged 65)
NationalityBritish subject
Alma mater
Occupations

Benjamin William Quarteyquaye Quartey-Papafio, MRCS (Lond) (25 June 1859 – 14 September 1924) was a physician pioneer and politician on the Gold Coast - the first Ghanaian to obtain the medical degree (M.D) and the first to practise as an orthodox-trained physician.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Michael R. Doortmont, The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison: A Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony, Brill, 2005, p. 347.
  2. ^ 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. S2CID 7298703.
  3. ^ "Benjamin william Quartey-Papafio - first Ghanaian to obtain medical degree". Ghanaian Museum. 2020-01-11. Archived from the original on 2020-03-07. Retrieved 2020-02-07.