Benjamin Quartey-Papafio

Benjamin Quartey-Papafio
MRCS (Lond)
Benjamin Quartey-Papafio MRCS (Lond)
	Quartey-Papafio, c. 1878 – c. 1894
Born	Benjamin William Quarteyquaye Quartey-Papafio; 25 June 1859; Accra, Gold Coast
Died	14 September 1924 (aged 65); Accra, Gold Coast
Nationality	British subject
Alma mater	CMS Grammar School; Fourah Bay College; Durham University (B.A.); University of Edinburgh (MBChB, MD);
Occupations	Physician; politician;

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]

^ 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.
^ 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.
^ "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.

[Doortmont-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.

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