Gibril Sesay Explained
| Gibril Sesay |
| Office: | Ambassador of Sierra Leone to Egypt |
| Predecessor: | Collins O. Bright |
| Successor: | Famah Joka Bangura residence in Addis Ababa
2002-2004: Interests Served by Saudi arabia |
| Office2: | Acting Imam of the Freetown Central Mosque. |
| Term Start2: | 1940s to the 1960 |
| Successor2: | 1982–2008: Ahmad Tejan Sillah |
| Birth Place: | Sendugu, Port Loko |
| Education: | - at the Bethel Day School, Technical Sir Alfred Jones Trade School.
- proceeded to Gambia and Senegal for Arabic education, and successfully qualified to be an Arabic Teacher and a second class Theologian.
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| 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.
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| Occupation: | - Was appointed Nawab (Assistant Imam) of the Temne Muslim in Freetown.
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Alhaji Gibril Sesay (August 1909 – September 2, 1988) was a Sierra Leonean diplomat and Muslim cleric.
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]
Notes and References
- Web site: SLPP, APC: A Tale of Two Ship Captains . Africa Young Voices . 28 February 2023.
- West Africa Publishing Company Limited, 1988, Gibril Sesay dies, Page 1747http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/55668https://books.google.com/books?id=85MuAQAAIAAJ&q=%22SESAY+%E2%80%94+Alhaj+Sheikh+Gibril+Born+in+Sendugu,+Port+Loko,+in+1909.%22 James Gow, Funmi Olonisakin, Ernst Dijxhoorn, Militancy and Violence in West Africa: Religion, Politics and Radicalisation, p. 174
