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The President of Sierra Leone
The President of Sierra Leone
LEONE
By Fatima Kamara
Early life of
Earnest Bai Koroma
fourth and current
president of the Republic
of Sierra Leone
Born on October 2,
1953,
in Makeni, Bombali
District in the Northern
Province of Sierra Leone.
His middle name Bai
means Chief in his
native Temne language .
Education of Earnest Bai Koroma
Koroma attended the Sierra
Leone Church primary School
in Makeni, and then proceeded
to the Sierra Leone
Government Secondary
School for
Boys in Magburaka, Tonkolili
District, about 25 miles
(34 kilometres) outside
Makeni. He attended Fourah
Bay College in Freetown,
from which he graduated in
1976 with a degree in Arts.
Early jobs