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Bombo Lahai Brima (19?-August 17, 1975), or Bombolai Brima, was chief of Tonko Limba in the Northern Province from 1952-75. In 1955, following some disaffection,...
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Lieutenant John Clarkson (1763-1828) brought more than 1,100 North American freedmen from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone, and became first governor of the Sierra Leone...
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Saul Msane (circa 1856-circa 1932), a prominent member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and a newspaper editor, was one of the founding members of the...
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Thomas Neale Caulker (18?-late April or May, 1898), one of the famous Caulker family which was prominent in the Sherbro region, was ruler of the...
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Richard Canray Ba Caulker (18?-1901) was ruler of the Bumpe chiefdom, in Sherbro territory, about 64 km (40 mi) southeast of Freetown, from 1864-88, and...
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Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston (August 19, 1898 – January 11, 1969), after a distinguished legal career, became the first Sierra Leonean to become governor-general, a...
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Frederic Cardew (1839-July 6, 1921) was governor of Sierra Leone from 1894-1900. During his energetic governorship, a Protectorate was declared over the British sphere of...
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Bambafara (circa 1830s-July 7, 1921) was the ruler from the 1870s to 1921 of Nieni, today a chiefdom in the Koinadugu District in northeastern Sierra...
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Johannes Nkosi (1905-1930), one of the leading lights of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s and one of that Party’s first...
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Ebeya Eugéne (1919- February 5, 1964), lieutenant colonel and chief of staff of the Armée Nationale Congolaise (A.N.C.), was the most notable casualty of the...
