Background
Raymond Sarif Easmon was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to the Easmon family, a prominent medical family.
Raymond Sarif Easmon was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to the Easmon family, a prominent medical family.
He arrived back in Sierra Leone in 1937. Easmon 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 (1970-1971) for his opposition to the government.
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, and at the University of Liverpool (Diploma in Tropical Medicine). Easmon"s play Dear Parent and Ogre, first produced by Wole Soyinka in Lagos in 1961, won the Encounter Magazine prize.
