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30 unusual facts about Sierra Leone


2007 Koidu-Sefadu protest

The 2007 Koidu-Sefadu protest was a protest by 400 Sierra Leoneans in the town of Koidu-Sefadu in Eastern Province.

Alexander Kilham

Kilham's second wife, Hannah Kilham née Spurr (1774–1832), whom he married only a few months before his death, became a Quaker, and worked as a missionary in the Gambia and Sierra Leone; she transcribed to writing several West African languages.

Billy Drake

In December 1941, Drake was posted to West Africa to form and command No. 128 Squadron RAF at Hastings, Sierra Leone, flying Mark II Hurricanes.

Bindi Hindowa Samba

Bindi Hindowa Samba is a Sierra Leonean paramount chief of Bo District, one of the four districts that make up the Southern Province.

Chernor Mansaray

Chernor Mansaray (born on February 5, 1976 in Kabala, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean international footballer, who currently plays as a striker for Al-Sekka Al-Hadid, one of Egypt biggest and most popular clubs, and for the Sierra Leone national football team.

Claire Curtis-Thomas

She is also involved with the Waterloo Partnership, a charity based in her constituency which raises money for Waterloo, Sierra Leone.

Dr. Oloh

Israel Olorunfeh Cole, commonly known as Dr. Oloh was born on March 20, 1944 in the mountain village of Leicester, near Freetown in the Western Area of Sierra Leone to a Nigerian mother and a Creole father.

Government Secondary School for Boys

Magburaka Government Secondary School for Boys is a government-sponsored secondary school based in Magburaka, in the Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone.

Hamble James Leacock

In 1855 he sailed for Africa as a missionary of the West Indian Church Association and founded a station at Rio Pongas, Sierre Leone.

History of Guinea

France negotiated Guinea's present boundaries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the British for Sierra Leone, the Portuguese for their Guinea colony (now Guinea-Bissau), and Liberia.

In 2000 Guinea became embroiled in the instability which had long blighted the rest of West Africa as rebels crossed the borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone and it seemed for a time that the country was headed for civil war.

Joseph Saidu Momoh

Joseph Saidu Momoh was born on January 26, 1937 in Binkolo, Bombali District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone to Limba Parents.

A professional soldier drawn into politics, Momoh rose from the enlisted ranks, to the highest position in the Sierra Leone Military Forces (Major-General), during his presidency.

Major General (Ret.) Joseph Saidu Momoh (January 26, 1937 – August 3, 2003) was the President of Sierra Leone from November, 1985 to April 29, 1992.

Kenema Government Secondary School

Kenema Government Secondary School is a government-sponsored secondary school located in Kenema, Sierra Leone.

Kisimi Kamara

But, in the 1940s, the British established the Protectorate Literacy Bureau in Bo which began teaching people to read and write Mende in a modified version of the Latin alphabet.

Koidu Girls Secondary School

Koidu Girls Secondary School is a government-sponsored secondary school for girls located in Koidutown, Kono District, Sierra Leone.

Kono Model Academy

Kono Model Academy is a government-sponsored secondary school located in Koidutown, Kono District, Sierra Leone.

Mills baronets

The second Baronet was Director of Public Works of Sierra Leone between 1939 and 1942 and of Uganda between 1942 and 1947.

Mohamed Kakay

Alhaji Mohamed Kakay is a Sierra Leonean politician who is a member of parliament of Sierra Leone representing his hometown of Koinadugu District, one of the five districts that make up the Northern Province.

Paul Kpaka

He attended one of Sierra Leone's most prominent secondary school, the Bo Government Secondary School (commonly known as Bo School) in Bo, Sierra Leone's second largest city.

Politics of Sierra Leone

Since 2004, each of the 13 districts and 6 major cities (Freetown, Bo, Kenema, Makeni, Koidu and Bonthe) has an elected Local Council which is the highest political authority in the district / city.

Sierra Leonean leone

In 1964, the Bank of Sierra Leone introduced notes in denominations of 1, 2 and 5 leones.

Steady Bongo

Lansana Sheriff better known as Steady Bongo was born in Daru, a rural town in Kailahun District in Eastern Sierra Leone to an ethnic Mandingo father and a Mende mother.

lansana Sheriff (born on August 28, 1966 in Daru, Kailahun District, Sierra Leone) popularly known by his stage name Steady Bongo, is an internationally recognized Sierra Leonean musician and record producer.

Telecommunications in Sierra Leone

The national microwave radio relay trunk system connects the capital, Freetown to Bo and Kenema, with 5 mobile phone networks (GSM900) with national coverage.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1313

:(a) maintain the security of and major routes to Lungi and Freetown;

Velma Middleton

While touring with Armstrong in Sierre Leone, she had a stroke or heart attack on January 25, 1961 and died on February 10, 1961 in the Hill Station Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Waterloo Partnership

The Waterloo Partnership is a British Charity based in Waterloo and Crosby areas of Liverpool raises money for its Sierra Leone namesake.

Yengema Secondary School

Yengema Secondary School or YSS is a government-sponsored secondary school that serves the town of Yengema, in the Kono District, Sierra Leone.


Abu Kanu

Abu Kanu commonly known as Gbanaloko (born 31 March 1972 in Magburaka) is a retired Sierra Leonean football Striker.

Alibaba Group

In August 2013, Patrick Campbell of Sierra Leone was arrested at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport with uranium samples allegedly concealed in his shoes, after responding to the ad.

Ansarul Islamic Boys Secondary School

Ansarul Islamic Boys Secondary School also known as"A School," is a government sponsored public secondary school located in Tankoro Chiefdom, Koidutown, Kono District, Sierra Leone.

Augustine Bockarie

Augustine Bockarie is a Sierra Leonean politician from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), who is currently a member of parliament representing Kono District.

Bagla Hills

The Gola National Park has been subject to a study and report into the conflicts and lack of clarity between the mining and forestry sectors in Sierra Leone by Global Witness.

Bai Bureh Warriors

The Bai Bureh Warriors of Port Loko commonly known as Bai Bureh Warriors is a Sierra Leonean professional football (soccer) club based in Port Loko, Port Loko District, Sierra Leone.

Bebearia zonara

It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Mayumbe, Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Tshopo, Equateur, Cataractes, Kasai, Sankuru and Lualaba) and Uganda (Bwamba and Toro).

Cantino planisphere

Other illustrations include a lion-shaped mountain representing the Sierra Leone mountain range, the Alexandria lighthouse (laid horizontal), the mythical Mountains of the Moon (legendary source of the Nile River) in central Africa, and either the Table Mountain or Drakensberg range in South Africa.

Capital Radio Sierra Leone

Capital Radio is a Sierra Leone radio station based at the Mammy Yoko Business Park in Aberdeen, Freetown.

Chief Kweku Andoh

Upon the latter's expulsion to Sierra Leone Chief Andoh was appointed regent of Elmina in 1873 and later of Edina State, a position he held until his death in December 1898.

Clapham Sect

They founded Freetown in Sierra Leone, the first major British colony in Africa, whose purpose in Thomas Clarkson's words was "the abolition of the slave trade, the civilisation of Africa, and the introduction of the gospel there".

Dead Men Don't Smoke Marijuana

Dead Men Don't Smoke Marijuana is the last album by Sierra Leonean highlife and palm wine musician S. E. Rogie, featuring the double bassist, Danny Thompson.

Donald Wellington

Donald Wellington (born 10 September 1992) is a Sierra Leonean international footballer who plays in Sweden for IFK Värnamo, as a striker.

Euleptorhamphus

E. velox occurs in coastal and oceanic waters from the western Atlantic from New England south through the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea to Recife, Brazil and eastern Atlantic from the Cape Verde Islands, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria.

Frederick Temple

Temple was born in Santa Maura, one of the Ionian Islands, the son of Major Octavius Temple, who was subsequently appointed lieutenant-governor of Sierra Leone.

Gem Stars F.C.

The Gem Stars of Tongoma Football Club simply known as the Gem Stars is a Sierra Leonean football club based in the diamond rich town of Tongoma, Kenema District, Sierra Leone.

George William Nicol

George William Nicol (died 1884) was the first African Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone and was one of few African senior level colonial officials in Freetown during the 19th century.

Glocal Forum

The WAF program is active in six pilot cities: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Asmara, Eritrea; Freetown, Sierra Leone; Kabul, Afghanistan; Kigali, Rwanda; and Nablus, Palestine and additional cities are expected to join in the coming years.

Governor-in-chief

The office could be systematically vested in and cumulated with a governorship, as it was in the governors of Sierra Leone (at Freetown) the case in both periods of existence of British West Africa, 17 October 1821 - 13 January 1850 and 19 February 1866 - 24 November 1888, the other components being Gambia, the British Gold Coast (present Ghana) and, in the second period, also Lagos territory (later a colony; in present Nigeria).

Hindowa Momoh

Hindowa Batilo Momoh (born in Kailahun, Sierra Leone) is Sierra Leonean former radical youth activist and former President of the National Union of Sierra Leone Students.

HMH-461

The detachment then conducted a non-combatant evacuation (NEO) in Sierra Leone as part of HMM-261(Rein) which was named Operation Noble Obelisk.

Indian Ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire

The Indian Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire is in charge of the Republic of India's diplomatic mission to Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.

Joseph Jackson Fuller

The Bimbia mission station and school, the first in mainland Cameroons, was founded in 1844/5 by the Fuller and Merrick families, and was quickly followed by a second at Duala founded by Alfred Saker and his family with the Sierra Leonian Thomas Horton Johnson.

Linda Dobbs

Loyda Johnson was a Creole from Sierra Leone and Arthur Dobbs (b. 1914) was an English lawyer originally from Essex who went on to serve as a High Court judge in Sierra Leone.

Magburaka Technical Institute

Magburaka Technical Institute is a two year technical college located in Magburaka, Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone.

Maurice Henry Dorman

Sir Maurice Henry Dorman, GCMG, GCVO (7 August 1912 – 26 October 1993) was the representative of the British Monarchy in Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Sierra Leone, and Malta.

Michael Banton

He subsequently wrote books about the settlement of rural immigrants in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and on the behaviour of the white British towards New Commonwealth immigrants.

Parliament of Sierra Leone

The meeting place of Parliament is at the House of Parliament building at Tower Hill in the capital Freetown.

Patience Sonko-Godwin

Born in Banjul, Patience Sonko-Godwin was educated in the Gambia before going to St. Edwards Senior Secondary School in Freetown, Sierra Leone to have her sixth form education.

Richard Dent

According to a DNA analysis, he descended, mainly, from Mende people of Sierra Leone and Balanta people of Guinea Bissau.

Seniora Doll

Seniora Doll or Senora Doll was a Sherbro princess or 'Duchess' of the Ya Kumba ruling house of the Yawry Bay Area between the Sierra Leone peninsula and the Sherbro estuary.

Sorious Samura

The self-funded Cry Freetown depicts the most brutal period of the civil war in Sierra Leone with RUF rebels capturing the capital city (January 1999).

St. Edward's Primary School

Saint Edward's Primary School is an all-boys primary (elementary) school currently located at Fort Street in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Stigmaphyllon

One species (S. bannisterioides) is also found in seashore vegetation along the Atlantic Coast from southern Mexico to northern Brazil, in the West Indies, and along the coast of western Africa (Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone).

Swan by-election, 1918

Forrest set out for England to accept the offer and take up his place in the House of Lords, but he died en route on 2 September 1918, off the coast of Sierra Leone, from cancer.

The SAFE Foundation

Founded in 2005, The SAFE Foundation currently has projects in Masinagudi in the Nilgiri Hills of South India, Kumasi in Ghana, Freetown in Sierra Leone and Tororo in Uganda.

Thomas Corker

Thomas Corker (born Falmouth, Cornwall, England, died 1700) was a prominent English agent for the Royal African Company and worked in the Sherbro, Sierra Leone.

Visa requirements for Slovenian citizens

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination.

Yair Klein

Yair Klein spent 16 months in a Sierra Leone prison between 1999 and 2000 on charges that he was smuggling arms to rebels from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF).