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Gibril Sesay

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Preceded by
  
Collins O. Bright

Education
  
Al-Azhar University

Died
  
2 September 1988

Succeeded by
  
Famah Joka Bangura residence in Addis Ababa 2002-2004: Interests Served by Saudi arabia

Succeeded by
  
1982–2008: Ahmad Tejan Sillah

Alma mater
  
1940-1944 British Institute, Cairo and Al-Azhar University in Cairo In 1952 qualified as a Master of Arabic and first class Muslim Theologian in the faculty of Mohamedan or Muslim Law and Constitution.

Occupation
  
Was appointed Nawab (Assistant Imam) of the Temne Muslim in Freetown.

Gibril Sesay was a Sierra Leonean diplomat and Muslim cleric.

Career

  • He was nominated City Councillor and Chairman of itst 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 th Board of Imams for the entire Muslim Community under the auspices of the Sierra Leone Muslim Congress in Freetown
  • In 1958 he was Mayor, Freetown City Council.
  • He was a founder-member of the All People's Congress.
  • 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 leonan mission in Cairo.
  • In 1973 he was designated Ambassador.

    • References

    Gibril Sesay Wikipedia
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