Lamina Sankoh
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Lamina Sankoh J.D. |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Ethelred National Jones 28 June 1884 Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| Died | 1964 Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| Resting place | Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| Nationality | Sierra Leonean |
| Political party | Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) |
| Alma mater |
Fourah Bay College Freetown, Sierra Leone University of Oxford |
| Profession | Philosopher, Priest, University Professor |
| Religion | Christianity |
Fourah Bay College Freetown, Sierra Leone University of Oxford
Lamina Sankoh (28 June 1884 – 1964), born as Etheldred Nathaniel Jones, was a Sierra Leonean pre-independence politician, educator, banker and cleric. Sankoh is known most prominently for helping to found the People's Party in 1948, one of the first political parties in Sierra Leone. It eventually became the Sierra Leone People's Party.
Lamina Sankoh was born as Etheldred Nathaniel Jones at Gloucester, Sierra Leone, in the Mountain District in the city of Freetown on 28 June 1884 to ethnic Creole parents. He attended a village school in Gloucester, The Cathedral School, Albert Academy and CMS Grammar School. He eventually graduated from Fourah Bay College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree. He then went to study theology and philosophy at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom, matriculating in 1921. From the 1920s he changed his name to Lamina Sankoh.
Sankoh returned to Gloucester in 1924 and received a position as priest and was appointed curate of Holy Trinity Church. He preached for progressive thinking within the church, because of which he also left the post in 1927. While a curate, Sankoh also lectured at Fourah Bay. After leaving the church, Sankoh travelled to the U.K. in order to study education at Oxford. A year later, he travelled to the United States where he taught at various historically black colleges, including Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama, Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania and South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
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