Nathaniel King: African Graduates and Medicine in British West Africa
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Nathaniel King (MB 1876) was the first African-born graduate of the University of Aberdeen, almost four centuries after the institution’s founding.
The son of a liberated slave pastor in Sierra Leone, Nathaniel drew upon family connections and colonial patronage to study medicine in Britain. After Aberdeen, Nathaniel established an influential medical practice in Lagos, becoming one of the first Western-educated medical practitioners in what would later become Nigeria.
This talk considers King’s life and the evolving role of Western medicine within his ancestral Yoruba society as well as the significance of the University of Aberdeen’s medical school as an imperial centre in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
- Speaker
- Richard Anderson, University of Aberdeen
- Venue
- via Teams