Moyamba District is a district in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone, with a population of 318,064 in the 2015 census.[2][3] Its capital and largest city is Moyamba.[2][3] The other major towns include Njala, Rotifunk and Shenge.[2][3] The district is the largest in the Southern Province by geographical area, occupying a total area of 6,902 km2 (2,665 sq mi) and comprises fourteen chiefdoms.[2][3]
Moyamba District borders the Atlantic Ocean in the west, Port Loko District and Tonkolili District to the north, Bo District to the east and Bonthe District to the south.[2][3] The main economic activities include mining (rutile and bauxite), fishing, rice growing and oil palm plantations.[2][3]
Moyamba District is one of the most ethnically diverse Districts in Sierra Leone. The Mende people are the largest ethnic group in Moyamba District; However, there is a large population of ethnic minority groups in the district that make up closer to 50% of the District population, including the Temne people, Fulani, Sherbro, Kissi, Mandingo, and Kuranko. Moyamba is home to a significantly large population of ethnic Temne minority, and is home to the largest ethnic Temne population in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone.[2][3]
Moyamba District is the birthplace of many of the country's highest profile politicians who helped guide the country to independence in 1961 from the United Kingdom, including Milton Margai, Albert Margai, John Karefa-Smart and Siaka Stevens. Politically, Moyamba District is a stronghold of the Sierra Leone People's Party(SLPP), as the vast majority of residents in the District support the SLPP. The SLPP has won every presidential election in Moyamba District including the 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012 and 2018 Sierra Leone presidential elections.
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MoyambaDistrict is a district in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone, with a population of 318,064 in the 2015 census. Its capital and largest city...
Moyamba is the capital and largest city of MoyambaDistrict, in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. There has been a recorded population of 11,485...
educational, health and economic outcomes in terms of human capital. The districts of Sierra Leone were divided into 149 chiefdoms of chieftaincies until...
predominantly in the Moyambadistrict to the south; the Golah-Mende, who inhabit the Gola forest between Kenema and Pujehun districts into Liberia; Sewa-Mende...
1905 in Moyamba, MoyambaDistrict in the Southern Province of British Sierra Leone to a Limba father and a Mende mother. Although born in Moyamba, Stevens...
Loko District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. She received her primary education from the EUB Primary School in Rotifunk, MoyambaDistrict. Sesay...
(MDAs) in MoyambaDistrict, MoyambaDistrict Statistics, Sierra Leone Encyclopedia Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in Port Loko District, Port...
District to the north, MoyambaDistrict to the west, Bonthe District to the southwest and Pujehun District to the south. The district population as of 2015...
Margai was born on 7 December 1895 in the village of Gbangbatoke, MoyambaDistrict, in the Southern Province of British Sierra Leone to Mende parents...
Kontanday Mbriwa II MoyambaDistrict, Southern Region – Paramount Chief Haja Fatmata Bintu Koroma Meama-Kajue Port Loko District, Northern Region – Paramount...
primarily in their homeland in Bonthe District, where they make up 40% of the population, in coastal areas of MoyambaDistrict, and in the Western Area of Sierra...
into one of Sierra Leone's most powerful families in the town of Moyamba, MoyambaDistrict in the Southern Province of British Sierra Leone. Her mother was...
spelled Shengge) is a coastal fishing town along the Atlantic Ocean in MoyambaDistrict, Southern Province, Sierra Leone. Shenge is the seat of the Kagboro...
Leone. Today they are concentrated in the southern and central part of MoyambaDistrict. They make up by far the largest ethnic group in the island, where...
chiefdoms. The District occupies a total area of 3,468 km². The District of Bonthe borders the Atlantic Ocean to the west, MoyambaDistrict to the northwest...
into five administrative regions, which are further subdivided into 16 districts. Sierra Leone is governed as a presidential republic, with a unicameral...
2002. Bockarie Kortu Stevens was born on December 30, 1950, in Moyamba, MoyambaDistrict in the Southern Province of British Sierra Leone. His paternal...
Margai was born in Gbangbatoke, Banta Chiefdom, in what is now the MoyambaDistrict, Freetown. His stepfather, M. E. S. Margai, who gave him the family...
Leone). The largest and main campus of Njala University is in Njala, MoyambaDistrict; the other campus is Bo, the second largest city in Sierra Leone. NU...
Stars of Moyamba is a Sierra Leonean football club based in Moyamba, MoyambaDistrict, Sierra Leone. The club represents the MoyambaDistrict and is currently...
constituencies 5, 12 and 92 (Western Area Rural District). The election was delayed in Western Area Rural District due to the death of PMDC candidate, and a...
David Woobay (born in Taimede Chiefdom, Moyamba, MoyambaDistrict) is a Sierra Leonean politician and a member of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP)...
Isata Mahoi (born in Ribbi Chiefdom, MoyambaDistrict) from a ruling (Royal) family, is a Sierra Leonean radio talk show host and actress in the soap opera...
into the Sierra Leone Protectorate in 1888, and is now part of the MoyambaDistrict of the independent Sierra Leone nation. Canrah Bah Caulker was born...
Gbangbatoke is a small town in MoyambaDistrict in the Southern province of Sierra Leone. The town is best known for being the birthplace of two of Sierra...
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