| farah ashraf |
A French Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist and political philosopher, born in Fort-de-France, Martinique. He is known for his struggle for freedom and against discrimination and racism, he served in the Free French Army during World War II and fought against the Nazis. He studied in Lyon, where he studied literature, drama, and philosophy. He was also qualified as a psychiatrist in 1951, after doing a residency in psychiatry at Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, then worked as a military doctor in Algeria during the French colonial period. He worked as head of the psychiatric department at the Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in Algeria, where he joined the ranks of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) and treated victims on both sides of the conflict, despite being a French citizen. In 1955, he joined the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) as a doctor. He secretly left for Tunisia and worked as an editor for the newspaper El Moudjahid, the mouthpiece of the Front. He also undertook direct organizational tasks, as well as other sensitive diplomatic and military tasks. In 1960, he became the ambassador of the provisional Algerian government to Ghana. He died in 1961 at the age of 36 from leukemia and was buried in Algeria.
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