Crispin Curtis Adeniyi-Jonespronunciationⓘ (1876–1957) was a Nigerian medical doctor of Sierra Leonean heritage[1] and the pioneer director of the Yaba asylum.
He started work at Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, and later apprenticed under Sir Rubert Boyce, a notable doctor from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
However, a strategic policy to limit the advancement of African doctors within the medical services[3] and the lack of funds in many departments curtailed some of his initial enthusiasm.
On 24 June 1923 Adeniyi-Jones, Eric Moore and Egerton Shyngle joined Herbert Macaulay and Thomas Jackson to form the Nigerian National Democratic Party, also known as NNDP.
He also advocated the creation of more primary schools, reduction of regional inequality in cocoa grading and the abolition of many provincial courts.
Prior to the twentieth century, the major economic activity of indigenous Nigerian groups where largely sheltered from the global economy.