Lamina Sankoh

Lamina Sankoh
J.D.
Personal details
Born
Ethelred Nathaniel Jones

(1884-06-28)28 June 1884
Gloucester, British Sierra Leone
Died1964 (aged 79–80)
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Resting placeFreetown, Sierra Leone
Political partySierra Leone People's Party (SLPP)
Alma materFourah Bay College, Freetown, British Sierra Leone;
University of Oxford, Oxford, England
ProfessionPhilosopher, priest, university professor

Lamina Sankoh (28 June 1884 – 1964), born Etheldred Nathaniel Jones,[1] was a Sierra Leone Creole pre-independence politician, educator, banker and cleric. Sankoh is known most prominently for helping to found the Peoples Party in 1948, one of the first political parties in Sierra Leone. It eventually became the Sierra Leone People's Party.

  1. ^ Magbaily C. Fyle (2006). Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone. Scarecrow Press. pp. 169–171. ISBN 978-0-8108-6504-4.