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Abioseh Nicol

Died in 1994

Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol, who wrote as Abioseh Nicol, was born on 14 September 1924 in the Freetown area. A scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge, he was the first black African to graduate with the highest honours, then, in 1957, the first elected a fellow of a college of that university; his work on the breakdown of insulin in the human body served diabetes research. Principal of Fourah Bay College in 1960, he then represented his country at the United Nations, where he was an under-secretary-general, and died in Cambridge on 20 September 1994.

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