Said Mohamed Cheikh

Saïd Mohamed Ben Chech Abdallah Cheikh (born July 1, 1904 , Mitsamiouli , Grande Comore ; died March 16, 1970 , Antananarivo , Madagascar ) was a Comorian sheikh and politician. He was head of government of the Comoros from 1962 until his death in 1970. Before that, Cheikh was a member of the French National Assembly from 1946 to 1962 and president of the Parti Vert (party of the Greens; later UDC).

Life

Cheikh was born on July 1, 1904 in Mitsamiouli on Grande Comore . He received his education in Madagascar and graduated in medicine in 1926. When he returned to the Comoros, he was the first doctor and practiced until the end of the Second World War in 1945. During an uprising in Nyumakele ( Anjouan ) in 1940 , he was able to successfully mediate, through which he entered the political scene.

In 1954 he was sent to the General Assembly of the United Nations as the diplomatic representative for France . In the process that led to Comoros independence, Said Mohamed Cheikh was considered the most important political leader on the islands.

Cheikh was elected in 1961 as the first President of the Conseil du Gouvernement of the Chamber of Deputies of the Comoros. He held this position until a heart attack in 1970, from which he died in Antananarivo in Madagascar . Cheikh was buried in Moroni , Comoros.

legacy

A memorial service was held at his mausoleum every year. In 1978 the government released gold coins worth 10,000 and 20,000 francs with an illustration of Cheikh. Postage stamps with his image were published in 1973.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Comoros - The Break with France , Country Studies.
2. ↑ habarizacomores.com .

Web links

• Homepage with picture on the website of the French National Assembly.
• damirbenali.com Homepage of an anthropologist