| 词条 | Raymond Sarif Easmon |
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| name = Raymond Sarif Easmon | image = |imagesize = | caption = | nickname = | birth_date = {{birth date|1913|1|15|df=yes}} | birth_name = | birth_place = Freetown, British Sierra Leone | death_date = {{death date and age|1997|5|2|1913|1|15|df=yes}} | occupation = {{hlist|Physician|Playwright}} | genre = | movement = | website = | spouse = Esther Campbell Easmon | signature = | nationality = British Subject, Sierra Leonean | education = Prince of Wales Secondary School, Newcastle University | language = English }} Raymond Sarif Easmon (15 January 1913[1]–2 May 1997) was a prominent Sierra Leonean doctor known for his literary work and political agitation. Background and early life{{further |Easmon family}}Raymond Sarif Easmon was born in Freetown, British Sierra Leone[1] to the Easmon family, a prominent Creole medical family of African American descent. Easmon's father Albert Whiggs Easmon and uncle, John Farrell Easmon, had qualified as a doctors in the 19th century. Easmon's mother, Hannah Maillat (c. 1890 – c. 1950), was a seamstress of French and Susu descent and Easmon was a sibling of Manto Noah, née Easmon, (b. 1911), a well-known Sierra Leonean botanist, also Nannette Sudie Easmon who married, Michael Benjamin Jones, Bertha Yvonne Thompson, who married William Conton and Amy Manto Bondfield Hotobah-During (1932–1995), who married Robert Wellesley-Cole. R. Sarif Easmon was educated at Prince of Wales School, Freetown, and subsequently in England at the University of Durham, where he won awards in biology and anatomy and qualified as a doctor at the age of 23,[2] and at the University of Liverpool (Diploma in Tropical Medicine).[1] He arrived back in Sierra Leone in 1937.[3] Political agitationEasmon became politically active during the regime of President Siaka Stevens. Easmon criticized the rampant political corruption that occurred during the period and in 1970 was arrested and detained (1970–71)[1] for his opposition to the government. WritingEasmon's play Dear Parent and Ogre, first produced by Wole Soyinka in Lagos in 1961, won the Encounter Magazine prize. His second play, The New Patriots (1965), was performed in several West African countries. In the words of Simon Gikandi: "Easmon's plays are semi-comical commentaries on politics and culture in a community undergoing the birth throes of independence and corruption in the institutions of government."[2] Easmon also wrote a novel called The Burnt-Out Marriage (1967) and short stories, collected in The Feud and Other Stories (1981). Personal lifeDr. Easmon married Esther Campbell, the daughter of William Campbell, a teacher, and the granddaughter of Dr. William Frederick Campbell (1858-1926), a Sierra Leonean physician. The Easmons had five children. Published works
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References1. ^1 2 3 Africa Who's Who, London: Africa Journal Ltd, 1981, p. 357. {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Easmon, Raymond Sarif}}2. ^1 Simon Gikandi (ed.), [https://books.google.com/books?id=M73RUGbFsCYC&pg=PA220&lpg=PA220&dq=raymond+sarif+easmon+wole+soyinka&source=bl&ots=pdvO7RgMWM&sig=DQRC0SWV2uK2TGV_6IW_Ss0FNpc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Bu1EUdP6L4WuPLLIgKAC&ved=0CGUQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=raymond%20sarif%20easmon%20wole%20soyinka&f=false Encyclopedia of African Literature], London: Routledge, 2003, p. 220. 3. ^Adell Patton, [https://books.google.com/books?id=usGMT7FOhdAC&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=raymond+sarif+easmon&source=bl&ots=qQa4nyoiWP&sig=-LuE4v7ogyHVJtzmY-NENQ-kVd8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZuhEUc_tJovEPebVgdgF&ved=0CGIQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=raymond%20sarif%20easmon&f=false Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa], p. 190. 9 : Sierra Leone Creole people|Sierra Leonean writers|1913 births|1994 deaths|Easmon family (Sierra Leone)|People educated in Freetown, Sierra Leone|Campbell family (Sierra Leone)|Sierra Leoneans of French descent|Sierra Leonean people of African-American descent |
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