Legends of Africa - Hamilton Naki

Hamilton Naki

He was a "skilled self-taught surgeon, versed in the argot and techniques of transplants despite leaving school at 14", although he was not part of the team that performed the first human-to-human heart transplantation in 1967 as was reported in his obituaries.

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    The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.
    —Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)