Raymond Sarif Easmon

Raymond Sarif Easmon was born on 15 January 1913 in Freetown, into a Creole family of doctors: his father Albert Whiggs Easmon and his uncle John Farrell Easmon had qualified as doctors in the nineteenth century. After leaving the Prince of Wales School, he studied medicine at the University of Durham, where he won prizes in biology and anatomy and qualified as a doctor at the age of twenty-three, then tropical medicine in Liverpool. Returning home in 1937, he practised there, denounced corruption under the regime of Siaka Stevens and was detained from 1970 to 1971. He died on 2 May 1997.

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