Momoh Gulama

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Paramount Chief Momoh Gulama
Paramount Chief of Kaiyamba Chiefdom, Moyamba District
Predecessor Paramount Chief Kaiyamba
Successor Paramount Chief Julius Gulama
Born Moyamba, Sierra Leone
Died Moyamba, Sierra Leone
Burial Moyamba, Sierra Leone
Spouse Tala Gulama
Issue Julius Gulama
House Gulama
Father Kaiyamba
Mother Guwanalo

Momoh Gulama was a Sierra Leonean paramount chief who ruled Kaiyamba Chiefdom in Moyamba District. [1]

A paramount chief is the English-language designation for the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a chief-based system. This term is used occasionally in anthropological and archaeological theory to refer to the rulers of multiple chiefdoms or the rulers of exceptionally powerful chiefdoms that have subordinated others. Paramount chiefs were identified by English-speakers as existing in Native American confederacies and regional chiefdoms, such as the Powhatan Confederacy and Piscataway Native Americans encountered by English colonists in the Chesapeake Bay area of North America.

Moyamba District Place in Province, Sierra Leone

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Early life

Gulama was born in Moyamba, Moyamba District in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. His was the second son of Kaiyamba, a Mende warrior who came to Moyamba from Kono sometime in the 1820s and his wife was Guwanalo. [2]

Sierra Leone republic in West Africa

Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, informally Salone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It has a tropical climate, with a diverse environment ranging from savanna to rainforests. The country has a total area of 71,740 km2 (27,699 sq mi) and a population of 7,075,641 as of the 2015 census. Sierra Leone is a constitutional republic with a directly elected president and a unicameral legislature. The country's capital and largest city is Freetown. Sierra Leone is made up of five administrative regions: the Northern Province, North West Province, Eastern Province, Southern Province and the Western Area. These regions are subdivided into sixteen districts.

Mende people ethnic group

The Mende people are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone; their neighbours, the Temne people, have roughly the same population. The Mende and Temne each account for slightly more than 30% of the total population. The Mende are predominantly found in the Southern Province and the Eastern Province, while the Temne are found primarily in the Northern Province and the Western Area, including the capital city of Freetown. Some of the major cities with significant Mende populations include Bo, Kenema, Kailahun, and Moyamba.

Kono District Place in Eastern Province, Sierra Leone

Kono District is a diamond-rich district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Its capital and largest city is Koidu Town. Motema is the second most populous city in the district. The other major towns in the district include Yengema, Tombodu, Jaiama Nimikor and Sewafe. The district is the largest diamond producer in Sierra Leone. The population of Kono District is 505,767. Kono District borders Kenema District to the southwest, The Republic of Guinea to the east, Koinadugu District to the northeast and Kailahun District to the southeast. Kono District is divided into fourteen chiefdoms

His brothers were also chiefs and founded the royal houses Boyawa and M’Bomeh. [2]

Family

He is the father of Paramount Chief Julius Gulama and the grandfather of Paramount Chief Madam Ella Koblo Gulama. [1]

Julius Momoh Gulama was a Sierra Leonean paramount chief, statesman and educator in the preindependence era. As paramount chief of Kaiyamba Chiefdom, he ruled the largest and most powerful Mende chiefdom in the Sierra Leone.

Ella Koblo Gulama Sierra Leonean politician

Ella Koblo Gulama OBE, GCOR was a Sierra Leonean paramount chief and politician. In 1957, she became the first elected female Member of Parliament in Sierra Leone and all of Sub-Saharan Africa. She was re-elected in 1962. During the government of Milton Margai, Gulama became Sierra Leone and sub-Saharan Africa's first female Cabinet Minister.

Further reading

Madam Lucy Gulama was the wife of Sierra Leonean Paramount Chief Julius Gulama.

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Komeh Gulama Lansana was the wife of Brigadier David Lansana, Force Commander of the Sierra Leone Army until his execution in 1975.

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References

  1. 1 2 Tribute to the Honourable PC Ella Koblo Gulama
  2. 1 2 "The Chiefdoms of Sierra Leone - Harvard University - PDF Free Download". propertibazar.com. Retrieved 2018-07-14.
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