Frederick Nanka-Bruce

Frederick Victor Nanka-Bruce (born October 9, 1878 , † July 13, 1953 ) was a physician , journalist and politician in the Ghanaian Gold Coast and was the third African after Benjamin Quartey-Papafio and Ernest James Hayford to study medicine.

Past life and family

Frederick Victor Bruce was a son of Alexander Bruce, a mechanic in Accra , and Christina Reindorf. Bruce was the offspring of two prominent families: the Bruces and the Reindorfs. The Bruces were a prominent Ga family from James Town (British: Accra), while the Reindorfs were from Osu. His father was a descendant of a prominent trader, Robert William Walace Bruce, while his mother was a relative of a catechist of the Basel Mission , Carl Christian Reindorf.

Nanka-Bruce attended a public school in Accra, Wesleyan Boys' High School in Lagos. He was a member of the Kumasi expedition from 1899 to 1900. From 1901 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh . In 1906 he finished his studies and returned to Accra in 1907.

Political career

Nanka-Bruce started a private practice in Accra and was a government public health advisor. In 1918 he founded the newspaper "The Gold Coast Independent". He was a member of the Legislative Council. In 1935 he was awarded the OBE . In 1933 he was co-founder and first chairman of the Gold Coast Medical Practitioners Union , and in 1951 co-founder and first chairman of the Ghanaian section of the British Medical Association ; after Nanka-Bruce's death, the two organizations merged to form the Ghana Medical Association .

His sister Florence, and after her early death his other sister Emma, ​​were wives of Thomas Hutton-Mills . Frederick Nanka-Bruce died on July 13, 1953.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jeffrey P. Green, Black Edwardians: Black people in Britain, 1901-1914. Taylor & Francis, 1998, p. 147.
2. ^ The Times , June 3, 1935.
3. ↑ Doortmont, p. 261.