The former president of the University of the Antilles-Guyana from 1977 to 1982 has died.
It was the last public appearance of this nationalist with a singular career and who will have marked the political history of colonial France, of Guadeloupe. Alongside many other anti-colonialist activists, he too will make the trip to Algiers to support the Algerian fight and later participate in the reconstruction of liberated Algeria.
He was notably a professor at the University of Algiers from 1968 to 1973. Back in Guadeloupe. He will be one of the founders of the popular union for the liberation of Guadeloupe with among others his comrade Claude Makouke. University, doctor in law and specialist in public finances, Roland Thesauros will be president of the University of Antilles Guyane from 1977 to 1982. But Guadeloupe will also remember that he was the head of the list of the nationalist movement which obtained 2 seats on the council regional in 1992.
Roland Thesauros was the main opponent to the majority of Lucette Michaux-Chevry president of the community.
The president of the CTG Rodolphe Alexandre paid tribute to him yesterday: “I salute the political commitment of the one who was one of the founders of the Guadeloupe nationalist movement. He is also recognized as an essential investment in the development and structuring of the higher education in the Antilles and Guyana. “
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