About Cornelius McKane
Dr. Cornelius McKane was a Guyanese-American physician and educator. With his wife Alice Woodby McKane, he founded medical schools and hospitals in Savannah, Georgia and Monrovia, Liberia. The descendant of an African king, he was urged by his grandmother to return to his African roots to help his people. Upon his family's return to the United States, the Doctors McKane founded a hospital for African-Americans. He became an instructor in rural Sherbro, and eventually met the youngest sister of his great-grandmother, who said, "Tako-neh-ebenu Allah! (You have come bring God!)".
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