Lamina Sankoh, Sierra Leonean banker and politician (died 1964)

Lamina Sankoh

Sierra Leonean politician and banker (1884 – 1964)

Lamina Sankoh, born Etheldred Nathaniel Jones, was a Sierra Leone Creole pre-independence politician, educator, banker and cleric. Sankoh is known most prominently for helping to found the Peoples Party in 1948, one of the first political parties in Sierra Leone. It eventually…