1957 Sierra Leonean general election information

General elections were held in Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate in May 1957. A total of 39 seats were up for election, whilst another 12 paramount...

civilian rule were fulfilled by Bio. Prior to conducting the election, Sierra Leoneans and international stakeholders were involved in a major debate...

between Sierra Leone and Britain; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held...

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influence in the political and economic development of the nation. Sierra Leonean women face extreme gender inequality. They experience high levels of...

Augustus Strieby Margai PC (7 December 1895 – 28 April 1964) was a Sierra Leonean physician and politician who served as the country's head of government...

between Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom. Another point of contention was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held...

first Speaker of the Sierra Leonean House of Parliament was the Honourable Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston who served from 1957 to 1962. Per the Constitution...

Krio is also the primary language of communication among Sierra Leoneans living abroad. The Sierra Leone Creoles settled across West Africa in the nineteenth...

minister of Sierra Leone and the half-brother of Sir Milton Margai, the country's first Prime Minister. He was also the father of Sierra Leonean politician...

Chief Minister by a landslide. On 20 April 1960, Margai led a 24-member Sierra Leonean delegation at constitutional conferences that were held with the Government...

one-time Governor-General and Chief Justice of Sierra Leone Femi Claudius Cole (born 1962), politician of the Unity Party and first Sierra Leonean woman to form...

Legislative Council only consisted of a small minority of high status Sierra Leoneans nominated by the government. The goal of this institutional change...

10 days later) 1962 Peruvian general election (won by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre) 1967 Sierra Leonean general election (Siaka Stevens took the oath...

September 2006) was a Sierra Leonean paramount chief and politician. In 1957, she became the first elected female Member of Parliament in Sierra Leone. [citation...

Chief Justice and first Sierra Leonean president of the Court of Appeal Sir Salako Benka-Coker (1900–1965), first Sierra Leonean Chief Justice of the Supreme...

exploitation of Sierra Leone's diamonds, demanding a Royal Commission of Enquiry into serious riots in the Kono District. In the pre-elections of 1957, SLIM won...

was promoted to general. In March 1971 elements of the Guinean military were deployed to Freetown in Sierra Leone after the Sierra Leonean President, Siaka...

appointed all leaders of Colonial Sierra Leone until 1953; the 1962 Sierra Leonean general election was the country's first election with universal suffrage. The...

Niger and Sudan in 2021, Guinea–Bissau and The Gambia in 2022, and Sudan, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso in 2023. Since 1990, 21 of the 27 coups in sub-Saharan...

the Greek parliament. June 28 – The 2023 Sierra Leonean general election is held; Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party is re-elected president...

Sierra Leone and Guinea were supporting the LURD, while Taylor was supporting opposition factions in both countries. By supporting Sierra Leonean rebels...