General elections were held in Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate for the first time on 28 October 1924. The National Congress of British West Africa...

elected in the 2023 Sierra Leonean general election. The APC currently has 54 of the 135 elected parliamentary seats, and the Sierra Leone People's Party...

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...

following elections occurred in the year 1924. Egyptian parliamentary election Kenyan general election Sierra Leonean general election South African general election...

Kai Abdul Foday (2 March 1924) was a Sierra Leonean politician who served as member of Sierra Leone's parliament representing his hometown of Kono District...

founded the National Council of Sierra Leone, which became the main opposition at the 1951 Sierra Leonean general election. After spending the next six years...

were known as Charles Heddle, a European African and John Ezzidio a Sierra Leonean. Both the official and unofficial members constituted the Legislative...

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...

and Sierra Leone Creole descent. He was a member of the True Whig Party, which ruled the country from 1878 until 1980. King was Attorney General from...

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...

brokered by ECOMOG-SL Nigerian chief General Maxwell Khobe, between Liberian dissidents and the Sierra Leonean Kamajors hunter militia, including chiefs...

1924 constitution, which allowed Africans to gain representative power in Sierra Leone's government. Slater oversaw the 1924 Sierra Leonean general election...

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...

Pérez, in February and November; the first led by Hugo Chávez. 1992 Sierra Leonean coup d'état: A group of young military officers, led by Captain Valentine...

DNA analysis, she descends primarily from the people of Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone. She was raised Catholic and attended Catholic schools, where she...

nationalist sentiment in Korean American communities. The Immigration Act of 1924 (also referred to as the Oriental Exclusion Act) also worked to systematically...

During the 1952 and 1956 elections, Jewish voters cast 60% or more of their votes for Democrat Adlai Stevenson, while General Eisenhower garnered 40% of...

botanist, botanical collector, writer, and editor Mary Musa (?–2015), Sierra Leonean politician and activist Mary Musani (born 1944), Ugandan hurdler Mary...

Hoyle Granger (born 1944), former NFL and AFL running back Eric Guerin (1924-1993), hall of fame jockey Lance Guidry (born 1971), defensive coordinator...

Thoroughbred racehorse Al Balding (1924–2006), Canadian professional golfer Al Bangura (born 1988), Sierra Leonean footballer Al Bashid Muhammed (born...

singer Kwaku Fortune, actor Garnett sisters, Irish singer-songwriters of Sierra Leonean descent Marsha Hunt, actress, singer, and writer Adam Idah, professional...

January 2005, Dessau gained notoriety for the mysterious death of a Sierra Leonean convicted drug trafficker and failed asylum seeker, Oury Jalloh. Garden...

than 10 percent) between 1925 and 1930. Following the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Great Depression, from 1930 to 1975, only 141,000 more immigrants...

classified as citizens after the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. As a body of laws, Jim Crow laws institutionalized economic, educational...

before World War II, due to Japanese rule as well as the Immigration Act of 1924, which completely barred immigration from Asia. Prior to the 1950s, emigration...

November 2016). "Second NPRC Military Coup and Elections Before Peace". Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan...

October 5 – Gao Yuanyuan, Chinese actress October 6 – Mohamed Kallon, Sierra Leonean football player and coach October 7 Aaron Ashmore, Canadian film and...

"Chapter Five: Foundation of Sierra Leone". The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783–1870. Toronto: University...