Abel Nathaniel Bankole Stronge Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Justice
Abel Nathaniel Bankole Stronge
Nationality:Sierra Leonean
Term Start:25 September 2007
Term End:19 November 2013
President:Ernest Bai Koroma
Predecessor:Edmund Cowan
Successor:Sheku Badara Bashiru Dumbuya
Birth Place:Freetown, Sierra Leone
Party:All People's Congress (APC)
Residence:Freetown, Sierra Leone
Alma Mater:Fourah Bay College

Abel Nathaniel Bankole Stronge is a Sierra Leonean politician who was Speaker of the Parliament of Sierra Leone from 2007 through November 2013.[1] [2] He is a member of the ruling All People's Congress (APC) and represents the Western Area Urban District. Bankole Stronge succeeded Edmund Cowan of the Sierra Leone People's Party as speaker of Parliament after the 2007 Sierra Leone Presidential and Legislative elections. Bankole Stronge was born in Freetown. He is a Christian and a member of the Creole ethnic minority who mostly live in the Western Area of Sierra Leone.[3] [4] [5]

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  1. Web site: Politico SL News » Drama in Parliament as Sierra Leone gets new Speaker . 2014-07-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160808212405/http://politicosl.com/2014/01/drama-as-sierra-leone-gets-new-house-speaker/ . 2016-08-08 .
  2. Web site: Dr. Abdulai Conteh Comments on Controversial Speaker Issue. 22 November 2013.
  3. Book: Walker, James W . 1992 . Chapter Five: Foundation of Sierra Leone . The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783–1870 . Toronto . University of Toronto Press . 94–114 . registration . 978-0-8020-7402-7., originally published by Longman & Dalhousie University Press (1976).
  4. Book: Taylor, Bankole Kamara . Sierra Leone: The Land, Its People and History . February 2014 . New Africa Press . 9789987160389 . 68.
  5. Web site: Economic History of Sierra Leone . San José State University, Department of Economics . Thayer . Watkins . 1 December 2012.