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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...

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Okere Adams
Okere Adams
Okere Adams is a Sierra Leonean politician. In 2002, Adams was appointed as the Minister of Marine Resources under Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. In September 2005, he switched portfolio's with Chernor Jalloh and became the Minister of Tourism and Culture. Adams was replaced by Hindolo Trye upon Ernest Bai...
John Akar
John Akar
John Joseph Akar was a Sierra Leonean of Lebanese descent entertainer, writer, and diplomat. He served as Sierra Leonean Ambassador to the United States...
Roda Antar
Roda Antar
Roda Antar is a Lebanese football midfielder who currently plays for Shandong Luneng Taishan in the Chinese Super League, and is captain of the Lebanon national team....
George Banda-Thomas
George Banda-Thomas
George Banda-Thomas is a Sierra Leonean politician.He was appointed Minister of Trade and Industry under President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. Banda-Thomas supported presidential candidate Charles Margai at the September 2005 SLPP Convention which cost him his job when Margai lost the election...
Alimamy Pallo Bangura
Alimamy Pallo Bangura
Alimamy Pallo Bangura is a politician in Sierra Leone. Over the past 12 years, Bangura has played a major role in Sierra Leonean politics and was a member of the Revolutionary United Front Party, where he replaced rebel leader Foday Sankoh following Sankoh's May 2000 arrest and 2002 electoral...
Hawanatu Bangura
Hawanatu Bangura
Hawanatu Bangura is a female sprinter from Sierra Leone. She is listed at 4'8 tall and 115 lbs. . Bangura represented her country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the 100m dash in Athens, Greece. In Athens she finished 7th in her individual heat with a time of 12.11, .97 of a second off heat winner...
John Amadu Bangura
John Amadu Bangura
Brigadier John Amadu Bangura was the acting Governor-General of Sierra Leone from 18 April 1968 until 22 April 1968. He led the Sargents Coup in 1968 that successfully re-instated civilian rule in Sierra Leone.- Early life :...
Zainab Bangura
Zainab Bangura
Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura is a Sierra Leonean politician and social activist. She is currently Sierra Leone minister of Health and sanitation. In 2007 Bangura became Sierra Leone's foreign minister in the government of President Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Congress Party...
Herbert Bankole-Bright
Herbert Bankole-Bright
Herbert Christian Bankole-Bright was a well-known politician in Sierra Leone.-Early life:Herbert Bankole-Bright was born in Okrika, Nigeria on August 23rd 1883. Bright was the son of Jacob 'Galba' and Letitia Bright, descendants of Sierra Leone Liberated Africans...
Eunice Barber
Eunice Barber
Eunice Barber is a Sierra Leonean athlete competing in heptathlon and long jump. Barber initially competed for Sierra Leone and then for France from 1999 onwards...
Ishmael Beah
Ishmael Beah
Ishmael Beah is a former Sierra Leonean child soldier and the author of the published memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.-Early years:...
John Oponjo Benjamin
John Oponjo Benjamin
John Oponjo Benjamin is a Sierra Leonean economist and politician of Mende descent. He is the current leader of the main opposition Sierra Leone People's Party . He served as Sierra Leone's Minister of Finance from 2002 to 2007...
Ernest Beoku-Betts
Ernest Beoku-Betts
Sir Ernest Samuel Beoku-Betts was a prominent Sierra Leonean lawyer who was very active in civic matters. He served first as member of the Freetown City Council and subsequently as its mayor . He improved the city and reorganized the council...
Solomon Berewa
Solomon Berewa
Solomon Ekuma Dominic Berewa was Vice-President of Sierra Leone from May 2002 to September 2007...
Nabih Berri
Nabih Berri
Nabih Berri is the Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon. He heads the mostly Shi'a Amal Movement.-Biography:He was born in Bo, Sierra Leone to Lebanese parents. He went to school in Tebnine and Ain Ebel in southern Lebanon and later studied at the Makassed and the Ecole de la Sagesse in Beirut...
Julius Maada Bio
Julius Maada Bio
Brigadier Julius Maada Bio is a Sierra Leonean politician who was the military Head of State of Sierra Leone from January 16, 1996 to March 29, 1996 under the National Provisional Ruling Council military junta government....
Sam Bockarie
Sam Bockarie
Samuel "Sam" "Mosquito" Bockarie was a leading member of the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone. Bockarie was infamous during the Sierra Leone Civil War for his brutal tactics, which included amputation, mutilation, and rape. He earned the nickname "Mosquito" for his ability to attack...
Tamba Borbor-Sawyer
Tamba Borbor-Sawyer
Tamba Borbor-Sawyer is a Sierra Leonean politician and a retired officer in the Sierra Leone Police. He is currently a member of parliament from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party representing Kailahun District. He is a member of the Kissi ethnic group.-External...
Aluspah Brewah
Aluspah Brewah
Aluspah Brewah is an international football player. He is a striker for Tianjin Songjiang in the China League One and also for the Sierra Leone national football team.-Early career:...
Alex Tamba Brima
Alex Tamba Brima
Alex Tamba Brima is a former Sierra Leonean military commander. He was one of a group of seventeen soldiers in the Sierra Leone Armed Forces who called themselves Armed Forces Revolutionary Council that succefully stage a coup that ousted president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in May 1997...
Abass Bundu
Abass Bundu
Dr. Abass Chernor Bundu is a former politician and diplomat from Sierra Leone. Bundu was bon in the town of Gbinti, Port Loko District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone to Fula and Temne parentage...
William John Campbell
William John Campbell
William John Campbell was a Creole mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone of Egba and Ife descent. His family was a prominent one amongst the Creoles in the early 1900s. His mother, Sarah Campbell was a Egba, his father, John Campbell, was an Ife. His brother John William Campbell was a herbalist at...
Tom Carew
Tom Carew
Tom Carew was a Brigadier, possibly later promoted to Major General, in the Sierra Leonean army and Chief of Defence Staff of the Government of Sierra Leone from April 2000 to November 2003, at which point Sierra Leone President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah re-assigned him to non-military duties.-External...
Adelaide Casely-Hayford
Adelaide Casely-Hayford
Adelaide Casely-Hayford, née Smith , was a Sierra Leonean Creole advocate, an activist for cultural nationalism, educator, short story writer, and feminist. She established a school for girls in 1923 to instill cultural and racial pride during the colonial years under British rule...
Albert Cole
Albert Cole
Albert Cole is a Sierra Leonean international footballer.He currently plays as a midfielder. He began his career with local club Mighty Blackpool in the Sierra Leonean Premier League....
Christopher Cole
Abdulai Conteh
Abdulai Conteh
Dr Abdulai Osman Conteh is a lawyer and politician from Sierra Leone.-Early life and education:Dr. Conteh graduated with LLB from King's College London where he won the Harold Porter Prize for Land Law in 1968, and subsequently continued his education at King's College, Cambridge...
Kandeh Baba Conteh
Kandeh Baba Conteh
Dr. Kandeh Baba Conteh is a Sierra Leonean politician and political scientist. He is the leader of the Peace and Liberation Party . He is a member of parliament, substituting Johnny Paul Koroma who died in 2003....
Edmund Cowan
Edmund Cowan
Edmund K. Cowan is a Sierra Leonean politician. He was the speaker of Parliament of Sierra Leone until 2007. He represented the Sierra Leone People's Party. He was subsequently appointed as the country's Ombudsman.-References:...
Mohamed B. Daramy
Mohamed B. Daramy
Alhaji Mohamed B. Daramy is a Sierra Leonean politician. Daramy has many years of experience in industry, the private sector and in government having served as minister of Labour, minister of Trade, minister of Transportation, minister of Finance and recently minister of Development and Economic...
J. B. Dauda
J. B. Dauda
Joseph Bandabla Dauda widely known as J.B Dauda, is a Sierra Leonean politician and current Foreign minister of Sierra Leone.-Education:...
Albert Joe Demby
Albert Joe Demby
Albert Joe Demby is a Sierra Leonean politician and a member of the Sierra Leone People's Party. He served as the Vice President of Sierra Leone from 29 March, 1996 to 25 May 1997, when the administration was overhrown by a military junta...
Sarway Dollar
Sarway Dollar
Sarway Dollar is a Sierra Leonean international footballer currently playing at right back for Mighty Blackpool in the Sierra Leone National Premier League, and for the Leone Stars squad, as Sierra Leone national football team...
Horace Dove-Edwin
Horace Dove-Edwin
Francis Horace Dove-Edwin is a retired Sierra Leonean sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.Participating in the 1988 Summer Olympics, he failed to make it through to the second round. In 1990 Dove-Edwin migrated to London together with his mother...
Ahmed Ramadan Dumbuya
Ahmed Ramadan Dumbuya
Ahmed Ramadan Dumbuya is a former Sierra Leonean politician. Dumbuya served as foreign minister twice; for a brief time in 1992 and from 2001 to 2002. He is a member of the Susu ethnic group.- References :...
Dala Modu Dumbuya
Dala Modu Dumbuya
Dala Modu was an important Sierra Leonean Susu trader and translator between the British Colonial Government and the local chiefs in the interior in the early decades of the British Colony in Sierra Leone. His efforts helped in resolving a number of conflicts between the colonial and interior rulers...
Idris Elba
Idris Elba
Idrissa Akuna "Idris" Elba is a British television, theatre, and film actor. He has starred in both British and American productions. Elba grew up in Canning Town, East London. One of his first acting roles was in the soap opera Family Affairs. He has worked in a variety of TV roles including ...
Emerson (Sierra Leonean musician)
Emerson (Sierra Leonean musician)
Emerson Amidu Bockarie better known by his first name Emerson is an internationally recognised Sierra Leonean afropop musician and the biggest and most famous musician from Sierra Leone at present. He uses his music against political corruption in Sierra Leone, while addressing the struggle of...
John Ezzidio
John Ezzidio
John Ezzidio was a freed slave from Nigeria who became a successful businessman and politician in Sierra Leone. Rescued from a slave ship headed for Brazil, he was apprenticed to a French shopkeeper and taught himself to read and write...
Moinina Fofana
Moinina Fofana
Moinina Fofana is a Sierra Leonean former military commander who was the leading general in the Kamajors militia and director of the Civil Defence Forces during the Sierra Leone Civil War...
Cyril Foray
Cyril Foray
Professor Cyril Patrick Foray was a Sierra Leonean educator, politician, diplomat and historian.-Public service:Professor Foray was widely considered one of the most respected and accomplished men of his generation...
Joseph Ganda
Joseph Ganda
Joseph Henry Ganda was the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Freetown and Bo in Sierra Leone.Born in the village Serabu in the Bo district, he was the first in the area to study for the priesthood....
Shirley Gbujama
Shirley Gbujama
Madam Shirley Yema Gbujama is a Sierra Leonean politician who served in a number of cabinet positions, including Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister of Social Welfare, Minister of Tourism and Culture, and Minister of Gender and Children’s Affairs. She was one of the most respected and...
Herbert George-Williams
Herbert George-Williams
Herbert George-Williams is a Sierra Leonean politician and the current mayor of Freetown. He is from the All People's Congress political party On January 17, 2008 George-Williams replaced Winstanley Bankole Johnson who was sacked by his fellow members of the Freetown-city counciles...
Ella Koblo Gulama
Ella Koblo Gulama
style="float:right;"|Ella Koblo Gulama was a Sierra Leonean paramount chief and politician. In 1957, she became the first elected female Member of Parliament in Sierra Leone and all of sub-Saharan Africa. She was re-elected in 1962...
Prince Harding
Prince Harding
Dr. Prince Alex Harding .Harding was the Minister of Safety and Security from February 2001 - May 2002, when he became the Minister of Transport and Communications. He was also the secreteary general of the Sierra Leone People's Party...
Abubakarr Jalloh (politician)
Abubakarr Jalloh (politician)
Alhaji Abubakarr Jalloh is a Sierra Leonean politician. Since the election of Ernest Bai Koroma as President of Sierra Leone in September 2007, Jalloh has served as Minister of Mineral Resources. In 2002 Presidential election, Jalloh was the running mate of Koroma in the Sierra Leone People's Party...
Amadu Jalloh
Amadu Jalloh
Alhaji Amadu Jalloh is a politician in Sierra Leone. He contested the 1996 presidential election as a member of the National Democratic Alliance, where he finished in 8th place with 2.3% of the first round voting...
Lamin Jusu Jarka
Lamin Jusu Jarka
Alhaji Lamin Jusu Jarka is a Sierra Leonean former businessman and current chairman of the victims' right's organization Amputees and War Wounded Association . Jarka was the Chief Security's Officer of Barclay's Bank in Freetown before the 1999 invasion of Freetown by the Revolutionary United Front...
Albert Jarrett
Albert Jarrett
Albert Ojumiri Jarrett is a Sierra Leonean international footballer who plays his football in England. A winger, he has played in all of the top five levels of English football....
Bomba Jawara
Bomba Jawara
Alhaji Bomba Jawara is a Sierra Leonean politician from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party and he is currently a member of parliament representing Koinadugu District. He is from the Mandingo ethnic group.-External links:...
Winstanley Bankole Johnson
Winstanley Bankole Johnson
Winstanley Bankole Johnson is a Sierra Leonean politician and served as mayor of Freetown from July 2004 until he was sacked by his fellow members of the Freetown-city Council on January 17, 2008. Johnson was appointed mayor in July 2004 and is a member of the opposition All Peoples Congress...
Henry M. Joko-Smart
Henry M. Joko-Smart
Dr. Henry M. Joko-Smart is a Sierra Leonean statesman, educator and retired Supreme Court Justice.Joko-Smart has a B.A. in classics and a Diploma in Education from the University of Durham, UK, LL.B and LL.M from the University of Sheffield, UK and a Ph.D in law from the University of London...
Andrew Juxon-Smith
Andrew Juxon-Smith
Brigadier Andrew Terence Juxon-Smith was a politician and military official in Sierra Leone. He was briefly Chairman of the National Reformation Council and acting Governor-General, equivalent to head of the Sierra Leonean state...
Haja Afsatu Kabba
Haja Afsatu Kabba
A controversial political figure to be investigated for alleged corruption by the conntry's Anti Corruption Commission. Only last week her 'corrupt' practices in offices were openly criticised by no less a person than her own deputy in the Marine Resources ministry, Oya Sankoh.Haja Afsatu Kabba is...
Karamoh Kabba
Karamoh Kabba
Karamoh Kabba is a Sierra Leonean author, writer, novelist and journalist. He has written several historic account about the Sierra Leone civil war, such as A Mother’s Saga: An Account of the Rebel War in Sierra Leone and the self-published works Lion Mountain and Morquee: A Political Drama of...
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah served as President of Sierra Leone from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007.He worked for the United Nations Development Programme and returned to Sierra Leone in 1992...
Patricia Kabbah
Patricia Kabbah
Patricia Kabbah was the wife of Sierra Leone's 3rd President, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah; was First Lady of Sierra Leone from 1996 until her death in 1998...
Septimus Kaikai
Septimus Kaikai
Septimus Kaikai is a Sierra Leonean politician and broadcaster, he served as Minister of Information and Broadcasting from 2002-2007 in former president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's second term in office. Kaikai is a member of the Mende ethnic group and a native of Kailahun District in Eastern Sierra...
Tamba Kaingbanja
Tamba Kaingbanja
Tamba E. Kaingbanja is a Sierra Leonean politician from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party , currently a member of parliament of Sierra Leone representing the Kono District. Kaingbaja is from the Kono ethnic group.-External links:...
Mohamed Kallon
Mohamed Kallon
Mohamed Kallon is a Sierra Leonean international footballer and considered the most famous footballer from Sierra Leone. He is currently playing for I-League club Viva Kerala FC-Personal life:...
Morris Kallon
Morris Kallon
Morris Kallon also known as Bilai Karim is a former Sierra Leonean rebel military commander in the Revolutionary United Front. In February 2009, he was convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone on 16 of the 18 charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes he was tried for.-Sources:* ...
Brima Bazzy Kamara
Brima Bazzy Kamara
Brima Bazzy Kamara was a commander of the soldiers of the Sierra Leonean Armed Forces Revolutionary Council and in 2007 was convicted of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Sierra Leone Civil War....
Mohamed Lamin Kamara
Mohamed Lamin Kamara
Mohamed Lamin Kamara is a former Sierra Leonean politician. Kamara served as foreign minister from 1992-1993. Under the Ahmed Tejan Kabbah administration, he was the deputy foreign minister.-References:...
Samura Kamara
Samura Kamara
Samura Kamara is a Sierra Leonean economist and the finance minister of Sierra Leone. He was the governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone until March 2009, when he was appointed by president Ernest Bai Koroma to replace David Carew as Finance Minister.-Early life:Samura Kamara was born in the village...
Samuel Komba Kambo
Samuel Komba Kambo
Samuel Komba Kambo Is a retired captain in the The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces. Kambo was one of six young soldiers in the Sierra Leonean Army that ousted president Joseph Saidu Momoh and the All People's Congress government on April 29, 1992...
Santigie Borbor Kanu
Santigie Borbor Kanu
Santigie Borbor Kanu was a Sierra Leonean military commander in the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council . He was one of a group of seventeen soldiers in the military of Sierra Leone that succefully staged a coup that ousted president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in May 1997...
Yahya Kanu
Yahya Kanu
Colonel Yahya Kanu Kanu was a loyalist to president Joseph Saidu Momoh, and his position in the coup is unclear. He was first reported by Reuters to have led the coup, but that same day he went onto the BBC's Focus on Africa to deny that role, claiming instead that he was attempting to negotiate...
John Karefa-Smart
John Karefa-Smart
Dr. John Albert Musselman Karefa-Smart was a politician from Sierra Leone and leader of the United National People's Party. He was an ordained Elder of the United Methodist Church.-Education:...
Ibrahim Kargbo
Ibrahim Kargbo
Ibrahim Kargbo is a Sierra Leonean international football player, who currently plays for FK Baku from Azerbaijan.-Career:...
Sidney Kargbo
Sidney Kargbo
Sidney Kargbo is a Sierra Leonean international footballer for K.V. Red Star Waasland.- Early life :Kargbo was born and raised in the east end of Freetown, Sierra Leone to Temne parents.-Career:...
Kadijatu Kebbay
Kadijatu Kebbay
Kadijatu Kebbay is a Sierra Leonean model and beauty queen who won Miss University Sierra Leone 2006 beauty contest and later represented Sierra Leone at the Miss World 2006. She is currently enroled at the Institute of Public Administration & Management in Freetown...
Allieu Kondewa
Allieu Kondewa
Allieu Kondewa is a former traditional doctor in the Kamajors tribe and military commander of the Civil Defence Forces in Sierra Leone. He was born in the Bo District and lived served until his arrest and subsequent trial by the Special Court for Sierra Leone....
Abdul Karim Koroma
Abdul Karim Koroma
Abdul Karim Koroma is a former Sierra Leonean politician. Koroma served in the Sierra Leonean government as Minister of Education , Regional Minister of the Northern Province , and foreign minister...
Abu Aiah Koroma
Abu Aiah Koroma
Abu Aiah Koroma was a lawyer and politician in Sierra Leone. Koroma began his political career as Attorney General in 1967 and 1968. He returned to government in 1976 when he became Managing Director of the National Diamond Mining Company until 1987. In 1991 and 1992, Koroma was the Minister of...
Ernest Bai Koroma
Ernest Bai Koroma
Ernest Bai Koroma is the fourth and current President of Sierra Leone. He was sworn in as President on 17 September 2007 at the State House in the capital Freetown, shortly after being declared the winner of a tense run-off in the 2007 Sierra Leone presidential election with 54.6% of the vote over...
Johnny Paul Koroma
Johnny Paul Koroma
Johnny Paul Koroma was the Head of State of Sierra Leone from May 1997 to February 1998.-Youth and Education :Koroma grew up in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. However, he was born in Tombodu, Kono District, in eastern Sierra Leone to Limba parents. He is from the same ethnic group as...
Momodu Koroma
Momodu Koroma
Momodu Koroma is a Sierra Leonean politician. He is a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party . He became foreign minister in May 2002, as part of a new cabinet appointed following President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah's re-election earlier in the month...
Sorie Ibrahim Koroma
Sorie Ibrahim Koroma
Sorie Ibrahim Koroma commonly known as S.I. Koroma is a former Sierra Leonean politician, labor activist and one of the founding members of the All People's Congress , one of Sierra Leone's most dominant political party...
Augustine Kortu
Augustine Kortu
Augustine Kortu is a Sierra Leonean politician. He was Kailahun District Council chairman and mayor of Kailahun until July 2008. He is from the Kissi ethnic group.-References:...
David Lansana
David Lansana
Brigadier David Lansana was one of the very few Sierra Leoneans to be educated at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, England during the colonial period. As Lieutenant David Lansana he was a frequent and popular visitor to the home of Sir Robert de Zouche Hall, Governor of Sierra Leone...
John Leigh (ambassador)
John Leigh (ambassador)
John Ernst Leigh was an Ambassador for Sierra Leone to the United States and was the son of a Sierra Leonean and a Native Sierra Leonean mother. John Leigh's father, Evelyn Leslie Foy Leigh was from the prominent Cline Town, Sierra Leone Creole family...
Samuel Lewis (Sierra Leone)
Samuel Lewis (Sierra Leone)
Sir Samuel Lewis CMG, BL was a Sierra Leonean mayor of Freetown and lawyer. Sir Samuel Lewis was the first West African ever knighted and was the third Sierra Leonean to qualify as a barrister. Sir Samuel Lewis was the first mayor of Freetown after the Freetown Municipal Council was established...
Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston
Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston
Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston was a Sierra Leonean diplomat and politician. He was the first indigenous Governor-General of Sierra Leone...
Desmond Luke
Desmond Luke
Desmond Edgar Fashole Luke is a former politician and lawyer in Sierra Leone. Luke had served as foreign minister , Minister of Health , and ambassador to the West Germany , France and the European Economic Community at various points in his political career...
Andrew Lungay
Andrew Lungay
Andrew Lungay is a politician in Sierra Leone. Lungay is currently a member of parliament and also ran in the 1996 presidential election as a member of the Social Democratic Party, receiving .7% of the national vote...
Fatmata Tatah Mansaray
Fatmata Tatah Mansaray
Fatmata Tatah Mansaray is a Sierra Leonean beauty queen who was one of the six finalists at the Miss University Sierra Leone 2006 beauty contest held at the Family Kingdom Resort at Lumley Beach, Freetown...
Albert Margai
Albert Margai
Sir Albert Michael Margai was the second prime minister of Sierra Leone and the half-brother of Sir Milton Margai, the country's first Prime Minister...
Charles Margai
Charles Margai
Charles Francis Kondo Margai is a Sierra Leonean lawyer and politician. He is the leader of the People's Movement for Democratic Change the third major political party in Sierra Leone, after the big two, the Sierra Leone People's Party and the All People's Congress . He was his party's candidate...
Milton Margai
Milton Margai
Sir Milton Augustus Strieby Margai was a Sierra Leonean politician and the first prime minister of Sierra Leone...
Lamin Massaquoi
Lamin Massaquoi
Henry Lamin Massaquoi is a Sierra Leonean international footballer. He is a member of the Leone Stars, Sierra Leone national football team.-External links:...
Tamba Songu M'briwa
Tamba Songu M'briwa
Tamba Songu M'briwa wa a prominent Sierra Leonean politician and paramount chief from the Kono ethnic group, who formed one of the few political parties in Sierra Leone before independence.-Early life and political career:...
Obi Metzger
Obi Metzger
Sam Obi Metzger, Jr. is a Sierra Leonean footballer who plays as a striker for Finnish second division side FC Viikingit and the Sierra Leonean national team.- International :...
Francis Minah
Francis Minah
Francis Misheck Minah was a Sierra Leonean politician. Minah earned his law degree from King's College London. He returned to Sierra Leone and served in many capacities as Sierra Leone's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Health, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, under former...
Jamil Sahid Mohamed
Jamil Sahid Mohamed
Jamil Sahid Mohamed is a Sierra Leonean businessman who made millions of dollars in diamond trade. He was exiled from Sierra Leone twice amidst accusations of a coup plot in 1987 and later for war profiteering. Mohamed built his fortune smuggling diamonds out of Sierra Leone during the 1970s and...
Joseph Saidu Momoh
Joseph Saidu Momoh
Major General Joseph Saidu Momoh was the President of Sierra Leone from November, 1985 to April 29, 1992.- Biography :...
Momodu Munu
Momodu Munu
Momodu Munu is a former diplomat from Sierra Leone. From 1985-1989, Munu served as the Executive Secretary of the Economic Community of West African States....
Solomon Musa
Solomon Musa
Solomon Anthony Joseph Musa, also known as SAJ Musa, was an important military and political figure in the Sierra Leone Civil War.-Overview:...
Arthur Nelson-Williams
Abioseh Nicol
Abioseh Nicol
Abioseh Davidson Nicol was a Sierra Leonean academic, diplomat, physician, writer and poet. He has been considered as one of Sierra Leone’s most educated citizens of recent times, as he was able to secure degrees on the art, science and commercial disciplines.-Early life:Nicol was born as Davidson...
Tom Nyuma
Tom Nyuma
Tom Nyuma is a retired Sierra Leonean military commander and currently the chairman of Kailahun District council from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party . He was elected as chairman of Kailahun District council on July 6, 2008 with 87% of the vote...
Bai Koblo Pathbana II
Bai Koblo Pathbana II
Paramount Chief Bai Koblo Pathbana II was a Sierra Leonean paramount chief and politician. He was married to Ella Koblo Gulama, a cross-tribal union marriage between an ethnic Temne and a Mende...
Joe Robert Pemagbi
Joe Robert Pemagbi
Joe Robert Pemagbi is a Sierra Leonean diplomat. He has been the Sierra Leonean Ambassador to the United Nations since March 2003. He is also a graduate of Njala University college where he also was the a long time staff member: Language department head from 1986 to 1995, Dean from 1988 to 1992,...
Patricia Piccinini
Patricia Piccinini
Patricia Piccinini is an Australian artist and hyperrealist sculptor. Her art work came to prominence in Australia in the late 1990s. In 2003 she was selected as the artist to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale....
Farid Raymond-Anthony
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.-References:...
Alhaji Shekuba Saccoh
Alhaji Shekuba Saccoh
Alhaji Shekuba Saccoh is a Sierra Leonean diplomat and the current Sierra Leone's ambassador to Guinea. He was appointed to the position by president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah...
John Saab
John Saab
John Nicol Sahid Saad is a Sierra Leonean politician, who currently serves as Sierra Leone's Minister of Housing and Infrastructural Development. He is a member of the opposition People's Movement for Democratic Change . He is one of only few members from the opposition parties to be elected as a...
Samuel Sam-Sumana
Samuel Sam-Sumana
Alhaji Sahr Samuel Sam-Sumana is a Sierra Leonean politician, and the current Vice President of Sierra Leone...
Emerson Samba
Emerson Samba
Emerson Samba is a Sierra Leonean footballer, who currently plays for Mighty Blackpool in the Sierra Leone National Premier League.-Career:Samba is rated as one of the best footballers in Sierra Leone...
Kabba Samura
Kabba Samura
Kabba Samura is a Sierra Leonean international soccer player and as well a Swedish Citizen European passport holder. He is currently playing for the Vietnam's V-League club Hoàng Anh Gia Lai.- Early career :...
Foday Sankoh
Foday Sankoh
Foday Saybana Sankoh was the leader and founder of the Sierra Leone rebel group Revolutionary United Front in the 11-year-long Sierra Leone Civil War, starting in 1991 and ending in 2002...
Lamina Sankoh
Lamina Sankoh
Lamina Sankoh , born as Etheldred Jones, was a prominent Sierra Leonean pre-independence politician, educator, banker and cleric. Sankoh is known most prominently for helping to found the People's Party in 1948, which was one of the first political parties in Sierra Leone...
Wusu Sannoh
Wusu Sannoh
Wusu Sannoh is a Sierra Leonean politician. He is currently the mayor of Bo City Council and member of the Sierra Leone People's Party .-External links:*http://www.ircbp.sl/drwebsite/publish/photos/article_352.shtml...
Solomon G. Seisay
Solomon G. Seisay
children=malcolm,olive,maada,ansumana,sarah.Solomon George Seisay was a Sierra Leonean civil servant who made history when he became the nation's first indigenous National Director of Prisons.-Early life:...
Tinga Seisay
Tinga Seisay
Samuel Tinga Khendekha Seisay is a Sierra Leonean pro-democracy activist and diplomat.- Early life :Born to a prominent political family, Seisay was educated at the prestigious St. Edward's Secondary School. He began his career as a law enforcement officer after graduating from the Police Training...
Abdul Serry-Kamal
Abdul Serry-Kamal
Abdul Serry-Kamal is a Sierra Leonean lawyer and politician, who currently serves as Sierra Leone's Minister of Justice and Attorney General. He was appointed to the position in 2007 by president Ernest Bai Koroma...
Issa Sesay
Issa Sesay
Issa Hassan Sesay served as senior military officer and commander in the Revolutionary United Front and AFRC/RUF forces in their insurrection against the government of Sierra Leone...
Kadi Sesay
Kadi Sesay
Dr. Kadiatu Sesay widely known as Kadi Sesay is a Sierra Leonean politician, feminist, pro-democracy advocate and the current deputy chairman of the Sierra Leone People's Party , She serves as Sierra Leone Minister of Trade and Industry from 2002 to 2007. She is the founder and Managing Director of...
Muwahid Sesay
Muwahid Sesay
Muwahid Sesay is a Sierra Leonean international footballer who plays as a striker for PP-70 in the Finnish First Division.- Career :...
Mohamed Sillah
Mohamed Sillah
Mohamed Yahya Sillah is Leader and National Chairman of National Alliance Democratic Party in Sierra Leone. He competed in the 1996 Presidential elections in Sierra Leone under the banner of the National Alliance Democratic Party . He was very new on the political scene in Sierra Leone at the time...
Siaka Stevens
Siaka Stevens
Siaka Probyn Stevens was the 3rd prime minister of Sierra Leone from 1967–1971 and the 1st president of Sierra Leone from 1971–1985. Stevens is generally criticised for dictatorial methods of government in which many of his political opponents were executed, as well as for mismanaging...
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...
Sheriff Suma
Sheriff Suma
Sheriff Suma nickname Awilo, is a Sierra Leonean international footballer of Guinean descent. He is a winger for Ravan Baku and for the Sierra Leone national football team. He was a member of Sierra Leone U-17 team at the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Finland...
John 'Johnny' Taylor
John 'Johnny' Taylor
John 'Johnny' Taylor was a Creole merchant based in Port Loko who killed during the Hut Tax War by Bai Bureh's war boys...
Banja Tejan-Sie
Banja Tejan-Sie
Sir Banja Tejan-Sie, GCMG was a politician and lawyer in Sierra Leone and one of the "founding fathers" of the Sierra Leone People's Party . Tejan-Sie was born in Moyamba District to a famous Muslim cleric and scholar from the Fulah tribe...
John Henry Malamah Thomas
John Henry Malamah Thomas
John Henry Malamah Thomas was a Sierra Leonean entrepreneur and a long serving mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone.-Early life:John Henry Thomas was born in Hastings, a suburb of Freetown of Creole recaptive parents, and his father died when he was three years old. John Henry Malamah Thomas is an...
Michael Tommy
Michael Tommy
Michael Tommy is a Sierra Leonean international football goalkeeper. He played recently for Grecia in the Costa Rican Second Division. Tommy was the first-choice goalkeeper for the Leone Stars in recent games but he has since lost that position to Christian Caulker.-Career:Tommy was born and...
Hindolo Trye
Hindolo Trye
Hindolo Sumanguru Trye is a Sierra Leonean politician with the All People's Congress . He is currently Sierra Leone's Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs.-External links:*...
B. J. Tucker
B. J. Tucker
Baigeh Joe Tucker is a professional American and Canadian football cornerback who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Wisconsin.-College career:Tucker was a high school sprint champion in the 100...
Andrew Turay
Andrew Turay
Andrew Turay is a politician in Sierra Leone. He competed in the 1996 presidential election as part of the United National People's Party . He received 0.5% of the vote ....
Edward Turay
Edward Turay
Edward Mohammed Turay is a politician in Sierra Leone. He was leader of the All People's Congress from 1996 until 2002. He contested the 1996 national election for president; however, Turay lost the election after gaining just 5.1% of the first round of voting, good enough for fifth place...
Peter Vandy
Peter Vandy
Peter Vandy is a politician in Sierra Leone. He is a member of the Revolutionary United Front and ran alongside Pallo Bangura in the 2002 Presidential election. He is a former government Minister of Lands and Environment and was detained alongside other government ministers Pallo Bangura and Mike...
Isaac Theophilus Akunna Wallace-Johnson
Mariama Elaiza Webby
Mariama Elaiza Webby
Mariama Elaiza Webby is a Sierra Leonean beauty queen who was one of the six finalists at the Miss University Sierra Leone 2006 beauty contest held at the Family Kingdom Resort in Lumley Beach, Freetown. She is currently attending the Institute of Public Administration & Management, where she...
Madieu Williams
Madieu Williams
Madieu Mohammed Williams is an American football safety for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round of the 2004 NFL Draft...
Julius Wobay
Julius Wobay
Julius Gibrilla Wobay nickname Gibo, is a Sierra Leonean International footballer. He is a striker for Khazar Lankaran in the Azerbaijan Premier League and for the Leone Stars, Sierra Leone national football team. He signed with Khazar Lankaran on a two year contract...
Amadu Wurie
Amadu Wurie
Amadu Wurie was an early Sierra Leonean educationist and politician.-Biography:Wurie was born in Gbinti, Port Loko District, in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone, the son of a Fula paramount chief...
Madam Yoko
Madam Yoko
Madam Yoko or Mammy Yoko was a leader of the Mende people in Sierra Leone. Combining advantageous lineage, shrewd marriage choices and the power afforded her from the secret Sande society, Yoko became a leader of considerable influence...

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