John Abayomi-Cole

Dr. John Abayomi-Cole was born in 1848 of Sierra Leonean parents in Abeokuta, Nigeria. At an early age, he lived with his uncle, Archdeacon Robbin, who was a Sierra Leonean missionary in Nigeria.

He was educated at the CMS grammar school. Upon leaving school, he taught at the Evangelical United Brethren Church School at Shenge in Sherbro country. In his mid-twenties he left for the United States of America where he was ordained a Minister in the American Wesleyan Methodist church. Later qualifying as a medical doctor he became a Fellow of the Society of Apothecaries (F.S.A.) of the United States. Shortly thereafter, he became an affiliate of the National Association of Medical Herbalists in Great Britain.ReferencesThe Sierra Leone Branch of the National Congress of British West Africa, 1918-1946 Akintola J. G. WyseThe International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 18, No. 4 (1985), pp. 675-698

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