Dr. Christiana Thorpe is the current chief of the Sierra Leone National Electoral Commission, an independent agency created by the Sierra Leone government and is in charge of organising and supervising national, regional and local elections in Sierra Leone. When Captain Valentine Strasser

Valentine Strasser

Valentine Esegragbo Melvine Strasser served as head of state of Sierra Leone from 1992 to 1996. He had been a junior military officer but in 1992, he became the world's youngest Head of State when he seized power three days after his 25th birthday...

 seized power in 1992, Dr. Thorpe was the only woman in his cabinet of 19 ministers. Now she's the first woman ever to be the Chief Electoral Commissioner in the country's history. She is a member of the Creole

Sierra Leone Creole people

The Sierra Leone Creoles, or Krios, are an ethnic group in Sierra Leone, descendants of West Indian slaves from the Caribbean, primarily from Jamaica; freed African American slaves from the Thirteen Colonies resettled from Nova Scotia; and Liberated Africans from various parts of Africa...

 ethnic group.

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