Iconic Women in History: Meet Agnes Yewande Savage, Nigeria’s First Female Doctor.
The first female Nigerian doctor, Agnes Yewande Savage, was born on February 21, 1906, in Edinburgh, Scotland, to a Nigerian father named Richard Akinwande Savage and a Scottish mother named Maggie S. Bowie. Yewande Savage received a scholarship to study at George Watson’s Ladies College and was admitted to the Royal College of Music in…