Agnes Yewande Savage (21 February 1906 – 7 September 1964)[1] was a Nigerian-Scottish medical doctor and the first West African woman to train and qualify in orthodox medicine.

[2][4] In 1933, Sierra Leonean political activist and higher education pioneer, Edna Elliott-Horton became the second West African woman university graduate and the first to earn a bachelor's degree in the liberal arts.

In her fourth year of medical school, she obtained first-class honours in all subjects, won a prize in Diseases of the Skin and a medal in Forensic Medicine, making her the first woman in the history of Edinburgh to do so.

Johnson regularly worked with Savage at the sick bay[10] and later went on to also study medicine at the University of Edinburgh, becoming Ghana's first female medical doctor.

[5][7] After Achimota, Savage went back to the colonial medical service and was given a better concession, in charge of the infant welfare clinics, associated with Korle Bu Hospital in Accra.