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Moyamba District

Moyamba District is a district in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone, with a population of 318,064 in the 2015 census. Its capital and largest city is Moyamba. The other major towns include Njala, Rotifunk and Shenge. The district is the largest in the Southern Province by geographical area, occupying a total area of 6,902 km2 (2,665 sq mi) and comprises fourteen chiefdoms.

Administrative divisions
Chiefdoms Since the 2017 local administrative reorganization, Moyamba District has been made up of fourteen chiefdoms as the third level of administrative subdivision. List of chiefdoms and their capitals: • BagruwaSembehunBumpeRotifunkDasseManoFakunyaGandohunKagboroShengeKaiyambaMoyambaKamajeiSenehunKongboraBauyaKoriTaiamaKowaNjamaLower BantaGbangbantokeRibbiBradfordTimdaleBomotokeUpper BantaMokelle ==Religion==
Notable people
Banja Tejan-Sie, Sierra Leone chief justice, speaker of the house of parliament and attorney general from 1967 to 1968. • Ella Koblo Gulama - Paramount Chief of Kaiyamba Chiefdom and Sierra Leone's first woman minister of parliament, a first woman cabinet minister. • John Akar, Sierra Leonean diplomat, speaker, and lyricist. • John Karefa-Smart, one of Sierra Leone's most prominent political figure and leader of the United National People's PartyJulius Gulama, educator and Paramount Chief of Kaiyamba chiefdom. • Kadi Sesay, politician, pro-democracy advocate and the vice presidential candidate of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). • Komeh Gulama Lansana, socialite. • Lucy Gulama, Chief consort of Paramount Chief Julius Gulama. • Madam Yoko, ruler of the Kpa Mende Confederacy. • Momoh Gulama, Paramount Chief of Kaiyamba chiefdom. • Siaka Stevens, first President of Sierra Leone. • Sir Albert Margai, attorney-at-law who became the second Prime Minister of Sierra Leone from 1964 to 1967 • Sir Milton Margai, a medical doctor who led Sierra Leone to independence in 1961, and became the nation's first prime minister from 1961 to 1964. • Solomon G. Seisay - Sierra Leone's first indigenous National Director of Prisons. • Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy activist. • Thomas Caulker (1846–1859) ==References==
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