Christopher Okoro Cole

Christopher Elnathan Okoro Cole (born April 17, 1921 in Waterloo , Sierra Leone , † 1990 ), also Christopher Okoro Eluathan Eustace Cole , was Governor General , briefly President of and Minister in Sierra Leone.

Okoro Coleh first went to the Seventh-day Adventist School in Waterloo, the Buxton Memorial School in Freetown , before he graduated from the London School of Economics with a law degree. After various positions in England, Okoro Coleh taught law at Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone from 1947 to 1951 . In 1960 he became a judge at the Constitutional Court .

Okoro Coleh had been the Order of the British Empire since June 12, 1965 .

From March 31, 1971 to April 19, 1971, as Governor General, he accompanied Sierra Leone's transition to independence in a complicated process . He then served as Chief Justice for two days, until April 21, 1971, as the country's first head of state and government. He is considered to be the shortest incumbent head of state in Africa.

Okoro Coleh was Sierra Leone's first representative to the United Nations in New York City . In 1978 Okoro Coleh, who was married and had four children, withdrew from public life.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Harris M. Lentz: Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge, New York 1994, p. 679.
2. ↑ CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD. The London Gazette, June 12, 1965.
3. ↑ African leaders that have spent the shortest time in office. This is Africa, June 14, 2017.
4. ↑ Mallyveen Roy-Johnson, Who's Who in Sierra Leone, Lyns Publicity, 1980, Sierra Leone - 56p. P. 6.