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Prime Minister Milton Margai led the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate to independence from the United Kingdom.
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Milton Margai
1st Prime Minister of Sierra Leone from 1961 to 1964 (1895–1964)
Sir Milton Augustus Strieby Margai was a Sierra Leonean physician and politician who served as the country's head of government from 1954 until his death in 1964. He was titled chief minister from 1954 to 1960, and then prime minister from 1961 onwards. Margai studied medicine…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate
British colony (1808–1861) and protectorate (1896–1961)
The Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone was the British colonial administration in Sierra Leone from 1808 to 1961, part of the British Empire from the abolitionism era until the decolonisation era. The Crown colony, which included the area surrounding Freetown, was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)