Banja Tejan-Sie
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Sir Banja Tejan Sie
| nationality = Sierra Leonean
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG}}
| image = Sir Banja Tejan-Sie.jpeg
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| order1 = Governor-General of Sierra Leone
| term_start1 = 22 April 1968
| term_end1 = 21 March 1971
| monarch1 = Elizabeth II
| primeminister1 = Siaka Stevens
| predecessor1 = Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston
| successor1 = Christopher Okoro Cole
| order2 = Speaker of the House of Parliament of Sierra Leone
| term_start2 = 1962
| term_end2 = 1967
| predecessor2 = Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston
| successor2 = Sir Emile Luke
| birth_name = Banja Tejan-Sie
| birth_date = {{birth date|1917|8|7|df=y}}
| birth_place = Moyamba, Moyamba District, British Sierra Leone
| death_date = {{death date and age|2000|8|8|1917|8|1|df=y}}
| death_place =
| alma_mater = Bo School
| spouse = Admire Stapleton
| children = *Daphne Tejan-Sie
- Malcolm Tejan-Sie
- Yomi Tejan-Sie
| profession = Attorney, Lawyer
| party = Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP)
}}
Sir Banja Tejan-Sie {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG}} (7 August 1917 – 8 August 2000) was the Governor General of Sierra Leone and one of the "founding fathers" of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). He was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, with the most distinguished Order - The Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, GCMG. Tejan-Sie was born in Moyamba District (in the current Southern Province) to a famous Muslim cleric and scholar from the Fulah tribe. Tejan-Sie was educated at the Bo School and the Prince of Wales School before continuing his education at the London School of Economics and Lincoln's Inn, where he was called to the bar in 1951.
Political career
In 1951, Tejan-Sie lost an election for a seat in the Parliament; despite this he was appointed as one of the two National Vice Presidents of the SLPP in 1953. However, in 1957, after losing his second election, Tejan-Sie began a career in the judiciary. In 1962, he was elected to the position made empty in the legislature of Speaker of the House by Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston,{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/dr-abdulai-conteh-comments-on-controversial-speaker-issue|title=Dr. Abdulai Conteh Comments on Controversial Speaker Issue|date=22 November 2013}} who became Governor-General of Sierra Leone.
In 1967, a military coup overthrew the government and set up the National Reformation Council. Tejan-Sie was appointed to the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, which he held until 1968. In that same year, when civilian control was restored, he was appointed as Governor-General. In 1971, when Sierra Leone was declared a republic, Tejan-Sie went into exile in England, where lived for the rest of his life, although he did visit Sierra Leone again in 1987 at the behest of then President Joseph Saidu Momoh.
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External links
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/sep/12/guardianobituaries1
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060518180333/http://www.slpp.ws/browse.asp?page=440 Sierra Leone People's Party biography of Tejan-Sie]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060427041809/http://www.sierra-leone.org/heroes8.html Profile of Sierra Leonean Independence leaders]
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Category:Speakers of the Parliament of Sierra Leone
Category:Alumni of the London School of Economics
Category:Sierra Leonean knights
Category:20th-century Sierra Leonean judges
Category:Governors-general of Sierra Leone
Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
Category:Sierra Leone People's Party politicians
Category:Chief justices of Sierra Leone
Category:People from Moyamba District
Category:Sierra Leonean Fula people
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