Benjamin Quartey-Papafio

**Benjamin William Quarteyquaye Quartey -Papafio**, MRCS (Londan) (25 ga Yuni 1859 - 14 ga Satumban shekara ta 1924) likita ne majagaba kuma ɗan siyasa a yankin Gold Coast - ɗan ƙasar Ghana na farko da ya fara samun digiri na likita (MD) kuma na farko da ya fara aiki a matsayin ɗariƙar ɗarika. -likitan horo.

## Rayuwa
An haifi Benjamin Quartey-Papafio a cikin babban dangin Accra: Iyayensa sune *Akwashotse* Chief William Quartey-Papafio, wanda aka fi sani da Nii Kwatei-Kojo ko "Old Papafio", da Momo Omedru, 'yar kasuwa daga Gbese (Dutch Accra) da Amanokrom Akuapem .

Quartey-Papafio ya yi karatu a Makarantar Grammar CMS da Kwalejin Fourah Bay da ke Freetown, Saliyo, kafin ya tafi karatu a Biritaniya. Samun B.A. digiri daga Jami'ar Durham, ya yi rajista a matsayin ɗalibin likitanci a Kwalejin Kiwon Lafiya ta Asibitin St Bartholomew a 1882 kafin ya koma Jami'ar Edinburgh. Ya sauke karatu daga Edinburgh tare da digiri M.B. da M.Ch. a 1886 kuma ya zama memba na Royal College na Surgeons.

Brotheran'uwansa, Emmanuel William Kwate Quartey-Papafio (1857-1928) manomi ne kuma ɗan kasuwa. Wani ɗan'uwa, Arthur Boi Quartey-Papafio (1869-1927) ya yi karatu a Makarantar Sakandaren Wesleyan ta Accra, sannan ya tafi Kwalejin Fourah Bay kafin karanta doka a Kwalejin Christ, Cambridge kuma a cikin 1897, an kira shi zuwa Bar a Lincoln Inn, London. Ya buɗe dakunansa a Accra kuma ya yi rubutu sosai kan tarihin Accra da dokokin al'ada na mutanen Ga. Daga 1905 zuwa 1909, ya kasance memba na Majalisar Garin Accra kuma abokin haɗin gwiwa na Babban Taron Ƙasa na Burtaniya ta Yammacin Afirka. Ya kuma yi wa jaridar editan, *Gold Coast Advocate*. Sauran membobi biyu na dangin Quartey-Papafio, Clement W. Quartey-Papafio (1882–1938) da Hugh Quartey-Papafio (1890–1959) (yaran Emmanuel William Kwate Quartey-Papafio) suma sun zama lauyoyi kuma suna aiki sosai a Accra high. al'umma.

Shi ne ɗan Afirka na farko da ya sami digirin likita a yankin Gold Coast

Da yake komawa Gold Coast, ya kasance jami'in lafiya na Sabis na Gwamnatin Gold Coast daga 1888 zuwa 1905, kuma yana cikin aikin sirri. Quartey-Papafio yana da yara uku da Hannah Maria Ekua Duncan, na dangin Cape Coast/Elmina; a ranar 8 ga Oktoba 1896 a St Bartholomew-the-Great Church a Smithfield, London, ya auri Eliza Sabina Meyer, 'yar Richard Meyer na Accra, kuma ma'auratan suna da yara shida.

Memba na Majalisar Garin Accra daga 1909 zuwa 1912, Quartey-Papafio memba ne na wakilin 1911 zuwa London wanda ya nuna rashin amincewa da Dokar Gandun Daji. Ya kasance mamba na Majalisar Dokoki ba tare da izini ba daga 1919 zuwa 1924. Ya kasance mai aikin Anglican.

## Iyali
Mercy (Ffoulkes-Crabbe), Ruby (Quartey-Papafio) da Grace (Nelson) sun zama malamai a yankin Gold Coast. Sonansa, Percy, ya sami horo a matsayin likita amma ya kasa yin aikin saboda gazawar gani da ido ya haifar. Dr B. W. Quartey-Papafio, Nene Sir Emmanuel Mate Kole, KBE (Konor na Manya Krobo), Dr F. V. Nanka-Bruce, Hon. Sir Thomas Hutton-Mills, tare da Nana Sir Ofori Atta (Omanhene na Akim Abuakwa), Nana Amonoo, F. J. P. Brown na Cape Coast, J. Ephraim Casely-Hayford na Sekondi su ne gine-ginen kafa Kwalejin Achimota. Dr Ruby ta ba da umarni ga ƙoƙarce -ƙoƙarinta da sha'awarta ta zama masanin tattalin arziƙi kuma ƙwararriyar Uwargida a Makarantar Sakandaren 'Yan Mata ta Accra. Baya ga rubuce-rubucen fatalwa da kuma ba da taimako mai yawa ga marigayi Kwame Nkrumah da abokan hadin gwiwa/masu kishin kasa wajen tabbatar da 'yancin kan Ghana, rabe-raben jinkai na Mercy sun kuma sa aka nada ta a matsayin shugabar mata ta farko a Ghana a Makarantar' Yan Mata ta Gwamnati ta Cape Coast. Bayan samun babban haɗin gwiwa na Kwalejin Sarauniya ta Royal, ɗanta tilo Nana Ffoulkes Crabbe-Johnson ta ci gaba da rarrabuwar kawuna ta hanyar zama Farfesa na farko na Ghana kuma Shugaban Sashen a Anaesthesiolgy (Asibitin Koyarwa na Jami'ar Legas) a wata cibiyar kiwon lafiya ta waje da mata. Shugaban Kwalejin Kwararrun Likitoci na Yammacin Afirka.

## Manazarta