Blama is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and the seat of
Small Bo Chiefdom
Kenema District
Kenema District is a district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Its capital city, capital and largest city is Kenema, which is the third most populous city in Sierra Leone, after Freetown and Bo. Tongo is the second most populous city i ...
in the Eastern Province of
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 ...
. Blama is located on the
highway
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from
Bo to Kenema, the largest city in Kenema District and the Eastern Province overa
Blama lies approximately twelve
miles
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to
Kenema
and about 170 miles south-east of
Freetown
Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and p ...
.
The population Blama is
ethnically
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diverse, though the
Mende people
The Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone; their neighbours, the Temne people, constitute the largest ethnic group at 35.5% of the total population, which is slightly larger than the Mende at 31.2%. The Mende are pred ...
are the largest and principal inhabitants.
Education
Blama is home to the Saint Joseph Secondary School and Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School, which serves the town and its surrounding area
The town of Blama is home to the Roman Catholic Primary School for Boys, National Islamic Primary School, New Harvest Primary Schoo
and the Sierra Leone Church (SLC) Primary Schoo
Notable people
Professional basketball player
Victor Oladipo
Kehinde Babatunde Victor Oladipo (born May 4, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Indiana Hoosiers, where in the 2012-2013 sea ...
's father was born and raised in Blama.
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20131102052308/http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/52931
*http://awoko.org/2011/09/21/ama-ends-free-medical-service-in-blama/
{{Kenema District
Eastern Province, Sierra Leone