Robert Wilson Memorial Prize in Chemistry, Welcome Prize in Medicine
Scientific career
Institutions
Colonial Medical Service, Lagos
Oloye Sir Samuel Layinka Ayodeji Manuwa, CMG, OBE (1903–1976) was a Nigerian surgeon, Inspector General of Medical Services and former Chief Medical Adviser to the Federal Government of Nigeria. He was the first Nigerian to pass the FRCS[1] and he obtained the postgraduate Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1934.[2] In 1966, he was elected president of the World Federation for Mental Health.
During his lifetime he served as a Nigerian aristocrat, holding the chieftaincy titles of the Obadugba of Ondoland, the Olowa Luwagboye of Ijebuland and the Iyasere of Itebu - Manuwa, all of the south-western region of the country.
As Inspector General of Medical Services, he contributed immensely to the establishment of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, the first medical school in Nigeria. He later became a pro-chancellor and chairman of the governing council at the University of Ibadan. Throughout his career, he sought and worked for the improvement of basic health services in the rural areas of Nigeria.
^Patton, Adell, Jr. Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa, University Press of Florida, 1996, p. 299. ISBN 0-8130-1432-8.
^Best, Henry Bruce Macleod, Margaret and Charley: The Personal Story of Dr. Charles Best, the Co-Discoverer of Insulin, Dundurn Press Ltd, p. 365. ISBN 1-55002-399-3.
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