Karamoh Kabba (born 1965 in Koidu Town,

Kono District Kono District is a district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Its capital and largest city is Koidu, Koidu Town. Motema is the second most populous city in the district. The other major towns in the district include Yengema, Tombodu, J ...

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) is a Sierra Leonean author,

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and

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. He has written several accounts about the

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, such as ''A Mother’s Saga: An Account of the Rebel War in Sierra Leone'' and the self-published work ''Lion Mountain'' and ''Morquee: A Political Drama of Wish over Wisdom'' published by Sierra Leone Writers Series. He has published several short stories and verses of

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on the Web site, Sierra Leone Web.

Early life and education

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Mandingo, Karamoh Kabba was born and raised in the diamond-rich mining town of

Koidu Koidu Town (or Sefadu) is the capital and largest city of the diamond-rich Kono District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. The population of Koidu Town is 124,6based on the 2015 Sierra Leone national census. Koidu Town is the fifth larg ...

,Biography
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, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, and serves as the current Minister of State, Eastern Region under the government of Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma. His parents are from the Mandingo and Kono ethnic groups respectively. He attended the Kono District Education Council (K.D.E.C.) primary school in Koidu Town and the

Government Secondary School for Boys Magburaka Government Secondary School for Boys is a government-sponsored secondary school based in Magburaka, in the Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone. The school is one of the oldest secondary schools in Sierra Leone. The Magburaka Government Secon ...

Magburaka Magburaka is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Tonkolili District in the Northern Province, Sierra Leone, Northern Province of Sierra Leone. Its population was 16,313 in the 2004 census. and a current estimate of 40,313. It is ...

Tonkolili District Tonkolili District is a district in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. Its capital and largest city is Magburaka. The other major towns include Masingbi, Yele, Mile 91, Bumbuna, Yonibana, Matotoka. Mathora, Magbass and Masanga. To ...

. His

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include the GCE Ordinary and Advance Levels. He pursued higher education at Montgomery College, Maryland, USA. Kabba served the government of Sierra Leone as National Coordinator of Open Government Initiative (OGI), Director of Political and Public Affairs and Deputy Minister of Political and Public Affairs. Kabba is the founder, president and chief executive officer of Sierra Leone Youth Lending Hand, Inc. (SLYLH), a

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organization devoted to assisting the youth of Sierra Leone educationally and medically and later founded and published the ''Timbuktu-Vision Monthly Magazine'' in the USA.

References

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