Gibril_Sesay

Gibril Sesay

Gibril Sesay

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Alhaji Gibril Sesay (August 1909 – September 2, 1988) was a Sierra Leonean diplomat and Muslim cleric.

Quick Facts Ambassador of Sierra Leone to Egypt, Preceded by ...

Career

  • He was nominated City Councillor and Chairman of the Establishment Committee. Secretary-General of the Sierra Leone Muslim Congress, Teacher of English and Arabic in the Tslamia Primary School, Lecturer of Mohammedan or Muslim law and Constitution in the Extra-Mural Department of Fourah Bay College.
  • Lecturer of Islamics in the Sir Milton Margai College of Education and Technology Teachers' Training College,
  • Organising President of the Sierra Leone Muslim Reform aition Society,
  • Organising President of the Imanfya Social and Literary Association,
  • Iman of the Board of Imams for the entire Muslim Community under the auspices of the Sierra Leone Muslim Congress
  • In 1958 he was Mayor, Freetown City Council.
  • He was a founder-member of the All People's Congress.[1]
  • He received his advanced Arabic/Islamic education in Saudi Arabia.
  • In 1973 he was named acting Imam of the Freetown Central Mosque.
  • From 1969 to 1975 he led the sierra Leonean mission in Cairo.
  • In 1973 he was designated Ambassador.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "SLPP, APC: A Tale of Two Ship Captains". Africa Young Voices. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  2. [2]
    West Africa Publishing Company Limited, 1988, Gibril Sesay dies, Page 1747 James Gow, Funmi Olonisakin, Ernst Dijxhoorn, Militancy and Violence in West Africa: Religion, Politics and Radicalisation, p. 174
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