Richard Akinwande Savage (1874–1935) was a prominent physician, journalist and politician in Lagos, Nigeria during the colonial era.
Richard Akinwande Savage was born in 1874, the son of a successful merchant in Lagos descended from Egba and Sierra Leone Creole families.
He attended the University of Edinburgh where he studied medicine, served as an officer in the Afro-West Indian Society, edited the 1899–1900 Hand Book and was sub-editor of The Student.
Although the People's Union was controlled by men with conservative views, it attracted some professionals with progressive ideas, such as Ernest Ikoli (1893–1960), journalist and founder of the Nigerian Youth Movement.
[2] The People's Union, which was in favour of gradual introduction of reforms, opposed the more radical and nationalist Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP), founded in 1922 by Herbert Macaulay.