Bai Kelfa Sankoh is a

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra ...

paramount chief A paramount chief is the English-language designation for the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a chief-based system. This term is used occasionally in anthropological and arch ...

representing

Kambia District Kambia District is a district in the North West Province of Sierra Leone. Its capital and largest city is the town of Kambia (Sierra Leone), Kambia. As of the 2015 census, The District had a population of 343,686. Kambia District borders the Rep ...

, one of the five districts that make up the Northern Province. He is a member of the Loko ethnic group. He is one of the greatest paramount chiefs in Sierra Leone, and he is the only paramount chief that went to war with the Nigerian soldiers to fight the rebels during ten-year war in the country.

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20071022093714/http://slpp.ws/browse.asp?page=426 Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Sierra Leonean politicians Loko people Place of birth missing (living people) {{SierraLeone-politician-stub