Edna Elliott-Horton
(1904-1994)
Sierra Leone scholar
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Edna Elliott-Horton (13 September 1904 – 1994) was the second West African woman from a British colony to receive a university degree after the Nigerian physician, Agnes Yewande Savage who received a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1929. A Sierra Leonean, Elliott-Horton became the first West African woman to complete a BA degree in the liberal arts, after graduating from Howard University in 1933. where Dr. Edward Mayfield Boyle, her maternal uncle, had graduated as a medical doctor. Elliott-Horton was a political activist who challenged the colonial authorities in Sierra Leone through her participation in the West African Youth League which was formally established in her living room.
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13 September 1904
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1994 (aged 89)
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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