Salia Jusu-Sheriff

{{Infobox officeholder

|image =

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|name = Salia Jusu-Sheriff

|nationality = Sierra Leonean

||order = Second Vice President of Sierra Leone

|term_start = 4 April 1987

|term_end = 1991

|president = Joseph Saidu Momoh

|predecessor = Abu Bakar Kamara

|successor = J. B. Dauda

|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1929|6|1}}

|birth_place = Segbwema, Kailahun District, British Sierra Leone

| death_date ={{death date and age|2009|12|19|1929|6|1|df=y}}

|death_place =London, United Kingdom

|party = Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP)

|spouse = Gladys Jusu-Sheriff

| children = Five children:

Yasmin
Salia Junior
Nalinie
Sheku
Nadia

|residence =

}}

Salia Jusu-Sheriff (1 June 1929 – 19 December 2009) was a Sierra Leonean politician who served as Vice President of Sierra Leone from 1987 to 1991. He was the leader of the SLPP party.

Life

Jusu-Sheriff was born in 1929 in Freetown.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q31SWae8fhIC&q=%22Salia+Jusu-Sheriff%22+1929&pg=PA78 |title = Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone|isbn = 9780810865044|last1 = Fyle|first1 = Magbaily C.|date = 27 March 2006| publisher=Scarecrow Press }} He was an economist and a lawyer. He was Minister of Finance of Sierra Leone from May 1982 to September 1984. Sierra Leone had two Vice Presidents, the First and Second, Jusu-Sheriff was the Second from 1987 to 1991. Jusu-Sheriff retired after Joseph Saidu Momoh was overthrown.

His and Gladys Jusu-Sheriff's daughter Yasmin Sheriff{{Cite web |title=Yasmin Sheriff |url=https://www.giraffe.org/yasmin-sheriff |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=giraffe.org |language=en}} has been an active campaigner in Sierra Leone, especially after 1991{{Cite web |title=Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff {{!}} Conciliation Resources |url=https://www.c-r.org/who-we-are/people/yasmin-jusu-sheriff |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=c-r.org}} when the Sierra Leone Civil War started.{{Cite book |last=Rubio-Marín |first=Ruth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nw-STBE9k7YC&dq=Isha+Dyfan&pg=PA253 |title=What Happened to the Women?: Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations |date=2006 |publisher=SSRC |isbn=978-0-9790772-0-3 |page=253|language=en}}

He died in London, UK on 19 December 2009.{{cite web |title=In Sierra Leone, State Funeral for Late Salia Jusu-Sheriff: Sierra Leone News |url=http://news.sl/drwebsite/exec/view.cgi?archive=1&num=14045 |date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001146/http://news.sl/drwebsite/exec/view.cgi?archive=1&num=14045 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=Final Funeral Arrangements for the Late Salia Jusu-Sheriff of Sierra Leone |url=http://news.sl/drwebsite/exec/view.cgi?archive=1&num=14062&printer=1 |date=26 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221337/http://news.sl/drwebsite/exec/view.cgi?archive=1&num=14062&printer=1 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |language=en}} Gladys Jusu-Sheriff survived him and she became a trustee for refugee work in Islington.{{Cite web |date=2017-11-21 |title=Our Patron and Trustees |url=https://islingtoncentre.co.uk/trustees/ |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants |language=en}}

References

Category:1929 births

Category:2009 deaths

Category:Vice-presidents of Sierra Leone

Category:Politicians from Freetown

Category:Finance ministers of Sierra Leone

Category:Government ministers of Sierra Leone

Category:Sierra Leone People's Party politicians

Category:People from Kailahun District

Category:20th-century Sierra Leonean politicians