Letitia Obeng

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Letitia Obeng is affiliated with the following schools: University of Birmingham, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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Letitia Obeng

Biology

#3568

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#5436

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Zoology

#170

World Rank

#459

Historical Rank

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Why Is Letitia Obeng Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Letitia Eva Takyibea Obeng was the first Ghanaian woman to obtain a degree in zoology and the first to be awarded a doctorate. She is described as "the grandmother of female scientists in Ghana". Early life and education Letitia Obeng was born at Anum in the Eastern Region on 10 January 1925. She attended a primary school in Abetifi, Kwahu and a middle school in Kyebi. Between 1939 and 1946, she had her secondary school education at Achimota College. While at school she took the London University International Examination to continue her education, courtesy of a government scholarship at the University of Birmingham , where she was the only African female student on the Edgbaston campus. She graduated from the university with a degree in Zoology. In her autobiography, she describes her experience of coming to study in the United Kingdom in the post-war years, including the prejudices she faced.

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Letitia Obeng's Published Works

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Man’s Impact on Tropical Rivers (1981) (22)
The invertebrate fauna of aquatic plants of the Volta lake in relation to the spread of helminth parasites. (1966) (18)
Man-made Lakes : the Accra Symposium : proceedings of a symposium held at Accra, November 21-24, 1966 under the auspices of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research fomerly part of the Ghana Academy of Sciences (1969) (17)
A comparison of two methods of estimating changes in Simulium larval populations. with a description of a new method. (1962) (14)
Water: A Special Issue || Should Dams Be Built? The Volta Lake Example (1977) (7)
Life-history and population studies on the Simuliidae of North Wales. (1967) (6)
THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE AQUATIC STAGES OF THE BRITISH SIMULIIDAE. (1965) (2)
Volta Lake: Physical and Biological Aspects (2013) (1)
SCHISTOSOMIASIS—THE ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACH (1977) (1)
Some environmental issues in water for development. (1980) (1)
Too Much or Too Little. (1975) (1)
Environmental Impacts of Four African Impoundments (1978) (1)
Bibliographic Note This Report Draws on a Wide Range of World Bank Docu- Ments and on Numerous outside Sources. Background Pa- Pers and Notes Were Prepared (2002) (0)
Progress of Science in Africa — in Tradition, Culture and Religion (1986) (0)
Man-Made Lakes and Problems of Human Settlement in Africa (1976) (0)
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD1 (1979) (0)
The helminth fauna of rodents of the sub-family Murinae in Ghana. (1965) (0)
THE VIEWPOINT OF UNEP (1977) (0)
The Right to Health in Tropical Agriculture * (1992) (0)
The distribution of Simulium species and their parasites in Welsh streams. (1963) (0)
Whither Fresh Waters and Their Biota (1980) (0)

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