Usman Boie Kamara

Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara
Usman Boie Kamara at a WTO conference in Bali, December 2013
Minister of Trade and Industry
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 January 2013
Preceded byRichard Konteh
Personal details
Born2 January 1949
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Died11 December 2020 (2020-12-12) (aged 71)
London
Political partySierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) (until 2012)
All People's Congress (APC) (2012–present)
ChildrenThree children
Residence(s)Freetown, Sierra Leone
Alma materImperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine London, United Kingdom
ProfessionMining engineer, businessman

Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara (2 January 1949 — 11 December 2020) is a Sierra Leonean politician, businessman and mining engineer who has been Minister of Trade and Industry of Sierra Leone since 2013. He previously worked as director of the Sierra Leone National Diamond Mining Company (NDMC).[1][2][3]

Born and raised in Freetown to ethnic Mandingo parents, Usman Boie has a master's degree in mining engineering and Mineral Production management from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London.[4]

His father Mohamed Boie Kamara was a prominent member of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) and served as the party's treasurer during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mohamed Boie Kamara was also a close ally of Prime Minister Albert Margai.

Usman Boie Kamara unsuccessfully sought the nomination of the SLPP for the 2012 presidential election, placing second behind former military ruler Julius Maada Bio, who won the SLPP nomination at the party's convention held on 31 July 2011 at the miatta hall in Freetown.[5][6]

After he lost the SLPP nomination to Julius Maada, Usman Boie Kamara defected from the SLPP in June 2012 and joined the ruling APC. He was officially welcomed and given an APC membership card by President Ernest Bai Koroma himself.[7]

Usman Boie is a devout Muslim and a fluent speaker of his native Mandinka language. He is married and has three children.

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  3. ^ http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/printer_200518258.shtml
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  5. ^ "Julius Maada Bio wins SLPP flagbearership | Sierra Express Media". Archived from the original on 27 May 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  6. ^ "Usman Boie Kamara is Still SLPP". www.thenewpeople.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011.
  7. ^ Vanguard, The Patriotic (11 June 2012). "Freetown: Usman Boie Kamara and YD Kamara Join APC". The Patriotic Vanguard. Retrieved 25 June 2018.