Farid Raymond-Anthony

Who is Farid Raymond-Anthony?

Farid Raymond-Anthony is a Sierra Leonean writer, author and poet. He was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone to parents of Lebanese descent. Raymond-Anthony has written several novels, including Stories from Sierra Leone, and Farewell to the Queen.

Raymond-Anthony was called to the English bar by Middle Temple in 1962, but he returned to practise at the Sierra Leone bar. He became a door tenant in the chambers of Sir Desmond de Silva QC, then at 2 Paper Buildings in the Temple, whom he met in the course of the 1969 treason trial of Samuel Hinga Norman in Sierra Leone.

As a result of the civil war in Sierra Leone, he fled to the United Kingdom with his English-born wife, Joan. He belated finished his pupillage to practice at the English bar, but instead of remaining at the bar he practised as an immigration consultant, publishing in 1996 a book "Questions and Answers on Immigration in Britain".