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Hamilton Naki (26 June 1926 – 29 May 2005) was a laboratory assistant to cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard in South Africa.He was recognised for his surgical skills and for his ability to teach medical students and physicians such skills despite not having received a formal medical education, and took a leading role in organ transplant research on animals.
Barnard grew up in Beaufort West, Cape Province, Union of South Africa.His father, Adam Barnard, was a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church. [4] One of his four brothers, Abraham, was a "blue baby" who died of a heart problem at the age of three (Barnard would later guess that it was tetralogy of Fallot).
Scarification has been widely used by many West African tribes to mark milestone stages in both men and women's lives, such as puberty and marriage. In many tribes, members unwilling to participate in scarification were generally not included in the group's activities, and are often shunned from their society. [ 12 ]
Louis Joshua Washkansky (12 April 1912 [1] – 21 December 1967) was a South African man who was the recipient of the world's first human-to-human heart transplant, and the first patient to regain consciousness following the operation. [2] Washkansky lived for 18 days and was able to speak with his wife and reporters. [3] [4] [5]
Daniel Hale Williams (January 18, 1856 [a] – August 4, 1931) was an American surgeon and hospital founder. An African American, he founded Provident Hospital in 1891, which was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States.
Mister Africa International, established in 2012, is an annual international male pageant organised by House of Twitch, it involves a worldwide search for the most adorable African man in the world. It currently has franchises in 30 African countries and has had participations from 40 African countries.
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[21] [22] Men "without heads, and others whose eyes and mouth were on their chest" are mentioned later by the persian polymath Al-Qazwini as inhabiting the "island of Jaba". [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] In the Indian epic Ramayana , the demon Kabandha is a headless creature with one eye in the middle of his stomach and with extra-long arms.