Ambrose Patrick Genda

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Ambrose Patrick Genda (born April 20, 1927 in Gerihun , Sierra Leone ) was the head of state of Sierra Leone , an important military and diplomat .

Before Genda took power in Sierra Leone in a coup d'état on March 24, 1967 , after David Lansana had launched a coup just three days earlier , he was Sierra Leone's military secretary at the United Nations in the United States of America from 1967 . Genda headed the state for three days as chairman of the National Reform Council before handing over power to Andrew Terence Juxon-Smith . He then became ambassador to Liberia before Genda went to the United Kingdom as High Commissioner for one year from 1968 . Then he was ambassador to the Soviet Union until 1970 .

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1. ↑ Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley, Ismail Rashid: The Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone. Lexington Books, 2013, p. 679, ISBN 9780739180037 .