Kaffu Bullom Chiefdom is an administrative area located in
Port Loko District
Port Loko District is a district in the North West Province of Sierra Leone. It is the most populous District in the North and the second most populous District in Sierra Leone, after the Western Area Urban District. As of the 2015 census, Port Lo ...
,
Northern Province, Sierra Leone
The Northern Province (commonly referred to as Northern Sierra Leone or simply the North) is one of the five provincial divisions of Sierra Leone. It is located in the Northern geographic region of Sierra Leone. It comprises the following four Di ...
.
History
Kaffu Bullom has also been known as
Bullom Shore Bullom Shore is geographical area in Sierra Leone facing the Atlantic Ocean and the estuary of Sierra Leone River
The Sierra Leone River is a river estuary on the Atlantic Ocean in Western Sierra Leone. It is formed by the Bankasoka River and Rokel ...
, and was one of the areas inhabited by the Bullom people. Bullom means low-lying land, and the Bullom shore stretches from Leopard Island in the North West to Tagrin Point.
, one of the first
Africans trained in
European medicine was the son of a Kaffu Bullom chief. Following the death of his father, King George, he was elected King on 4 March 1827 in the presence of
James Holman.
was based here between 1812 and 1818, and worked on his
Grammar and Vocabulary of the Bullom Language' during his stay.
Contemporary
In November 2015 the
Cameroonian footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...
Samuel Eto'o
Samuel Eto'o Fils (; born 10 March 1981) is a Cameroonian football administrator and former player who is the current president of the Cameroonian Football Federation from 11 December 2021. In his prime, Eto'o was regarded by pundits as one of ...
was crowned
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 ar ...
. He was visiting Sierra Leone as part of the FIFA "11 for Health and 11 against Ebola" programme in the country.
References
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Chiefdoms of Sierra Leone