Samuel Lansana Bangura

Samuel Lansana Bangura
Samuel Lansana Banguara
Born
Samuel Lansana Bangura

(1930-06-07)7 June 1930
Tonkolili District, Northern Province, Sierra Leone
Died18 December 1979(1979-12-18) (aged 49)
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Other nameSam Bangura
EducationBo School, Hull University, Queen's College, University of Oxford
Occupations
Spouse(s)Mariama Tity, née Wurie
Writing career
LanguageEnglish, Krio, Temne
Signature
Cursive signature in ink

Samuel Lansana Bangura (7 June 1930 – 18 December 1979), commonly known as Sam Bangura, was a Sierra Leonean banker and civil servant who was the second Sierra Leonean to serve as Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone.

The assassination of Bangura in 1979 during the administration of President Siaka Stevens was one of the first high-profile assassinations in postcolonial Sierra Leone. The assassination is widely cited by some scholars as an example of the repressive and violent nature of the Siaka Stevens' administration.

Early life

Samuel Lansana Bangura was born on June 7, 1930, at Yele in Tonkolili District in the Northern Protectorate to Santigi Bangura and Mbalu Koroma. Bangura was born to parents from the Temne ethnic group in Sierra Leone.

Education

Venn Building, University of Hull

Bangura was educated at the Seventh Day Adventist Mission School in Yele and subsequently attended school in Koyeima and at the Bo School.

He subsequently studied economics at Hull University in Britain and graduated in 1957.

He studied the Devonshire Course "A" at Queen's College, University of Oxford between 1958 and 1959.

Career

Bank of Sierra Leone

Samuel Bangura returned to Sierra Leone and was appointed as assistant commissioner in Bonthe in 1959. He was subsequently appointed as the district commissioner in Bonthe and served in this role until August 1962.

Bangura joined the Ministry of Finance and was appointed as a Permanent Secretary in the Development Office between May 1964 and February 1966.

He subsequently served in the Bank of Sierra Leone in February 1966 and was appointed as the deputy governor of the Bank in June 1966.

Bangura succeeded Silvanus Nicol-Cole as Bank governor in November 1970.

Personal life

Samuel Bangura married Mariama Tity, née Wurie, a daughter of Madam Fatmatta Kahn and, Amadu Wurie, an educationist and one-time SLPP Minister of Education and Minister of the Interior. Bangura had six children.

Assassination

Samuel Bangura was assassinated at his house in the west end of Freetown on 18 December 1979.

Although suspects were arrested and convicted, the Siaka Stevens administration was widely implicated in the assassination of Bangura. It was alleged that Abayomi Alhadi, an Oku state-sponsored assassin also known as 'Highway' carried out the assassination of Bangura.[citation needed]

References

  1. ↑ Sierra Leone Year Book, 1973 (Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Daily Mail, 1973), p. 144
  2. ↑ https://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/the-sam-bangura-nightmare
  3. ↑ https://allafrica.com/stories/200408060443.html
  4. ↑ https://theafricandreamsl.com/sam-bangura-the-bank-governor-who-died-for-defying-orders-from-the-president/
  5. ↑ Jimmy D. Kandeh, “Ransoming the State: Elite Origins of Subaltern Terror in Sierra Leone,” Review of African Political Economy, 26, no. 81 (1999), pp. 360-361.
  6. ↑ https://theafricandreamsl.com/sam-bangura-the-bank-governor-who-died-for-defying-orders-from-the-president/
  7. ↑ Lansana Gberie, "Stevens, Siaka Probyn (1905–1988), prime minister and president of Sierra Leone." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 8 Oct. 2009
  8. ↑ Sierra Leone Year Book, 1973 (Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Daily Mail, 1973), p. 144
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  10. ↑ https://theafricandreamsl.com/sam-bangura-the-bank-governor-who-died-for-defying-orders-from-the-president/
  11. ↑ Sierra Leone Year Book, 1973 (Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Daily Mail, 1973), p. 144
  12. ↑ Sierra Leone Year Book, 1973 (Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Daily Mail, 1973), p. 144
  13. ↑ https://allafrica.com/stories/200408060443.html
  14. ↑ https://theafricandreamsl.com/sam-bangura-the-bank-governor-who-died-for-defying-orders-from-the-president/
  15. ↑ Sierra Leone Year Book, 1973(Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Daily Mail, 1973), p. 144
  16. ↑ https://allafrica.com/stories/200408060443.html
  17. ↑ https://theafricandreamsl.com/sam-bangura-the-bank-governor-who-died-for-defying-orders-from-the-president/
  18. ↑ Sierra Leone Year Book, 1973 (Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Daily Mail, 1973), p. 144
  19. ↑ Sierra Leone Year Book, 1973 (Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Daily Mail, 1973), p. 144
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  21. ↑ Sierra Leone Year Book, 1973 (Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Daily Mail, 1973), p. 144
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  23. ↑ https://theafricandreamsl.com/sam-bangura-the-bank-governor-who-died-for-defying-orders-from-the-president/
  24. ↑ Sierra Leone Year Book, 1973 (Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Daily Mail, 1973), p. 144
  25. ↑ Jimmy D. Kandeh, “Ransoming the State: Elite Origins of Subaltern Terror in Sierra Leone,” Review of African Political Economy, 26, no. 81 (1999), pp. 359-361.
  26. ↑ https://allafrica.com/stories/200408060443.html
  27. ↑ https://theafricandreamsl.com/sam-bangura-the-bank-governor-who-died-for-defying-orders-from-the-president/
  28. ↑ Jimmy D. Kandeh, “Ransoming the State: Elite Origins of Subaltern Terror in Sierra Leone,” Review of African Political Economy, 26, no. 81 (1999), pp. 359–361.
  29. ↑ Ishmail Rashid, “Subaltern Reactions: Lumpens, Students, and the Left,” Africa Development / Afrique et Développement, 22, no. 3/4 (1997), p. 24.
  30. ↑ https://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/the-sam-bangura-nightmare
  31. ↑ https://allafrica.com/stories/200408060443.html
  32. ↑ https://theafricandreamsl.com/sam-bangura-the-bank-governor-who-died-for-defying-orders-from-the-president/