Achkar Marof (1930-26 January, 1971) was a

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n diplomat. Marof was born in Coyah (Republic of Guinea) in 1930 and studied at the Ecole Breguet in

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. He became deputy director of the '' Ballets Africains'' in 1954 and was appointed its director in 1957. He was the Guinea Permanent Representative to the

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, from 1964 to 1968. Marof was recalled to

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in 1968, arrested and jailed a
Camp Boiro
He briefly regained his freedom in the 1970 coup attempt. His family learned in 1985 that he had been shot on 26 January 1971.

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Documentary movie directed and starred by David, Achkar's son * The African Activist Archive Project website includes the pamphle
/ Racism in South Africa: A Call for International Action
(New York, American Committee on Africa, 1965) that consists of 11 addresses made in 1964 and 1965 by Achkar Marof. The website includes an address by Marof to the National Conference on the South Africa Crisis and American Actio
/ African Continental Dynamics and International Pressures
and a 1967 leafle
/ Johannesburg South Africa
advertising a meeting in memory of the South Africans killed at Sharpeville on March 21, 1960, and commemorating the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination at which Marof was one of the speakers. Guinean politicians Guinean diplomats Permanent representatives of Guinea to the United Nations 1930 births 1971 deaths People from Coyah Executed Guinean people People executed by Guinea by firearm {{Guinea-politician-stub