Sahr Thomas Matturi

Sahr Thomas Matturi (born October 22, 1925 in Jaiama-Nimokoro ) is a botanist and former Sierra Leonean diplomat .

education

Matturi visited the boys' school in Bo and studied at the University of Ibadan and at the University of Hull , where he a 1961 PhD in Mycology received. From this he later received an honorary doctorate LL. D .

Career

From 1959 to 1963 was a lecturer at Fourah Bay College in Freetown . In 1963 he became dean of Njala University . Between 1968 and 1970 Matturi was Vice Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone . In 1973 he began his diplomatic career as ambassador in Rome ( Italy ); he was simultaneously accredited for Austria and Yugoslavia . The station in Italy was followed by the post of High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in London from 1978 to 1980.

From July 1982 to April 1986 Matturi was the Sierra Leonean ambassador to Belgium , at the same time accredited to the European Union in Brussels and from 1984 also responsible for Germany. His last political station was from 1987 to 1988 in the United States of America in Washington, DC

Awards

Matturi received the Sierra Leonean Order of Commander of the Order of the Rokel on April 27, 2013 .

literature

• Magbaily C. Fyle: Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone , Scarecrow Press, 2006, p. 126 ( digitized )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FROM THE SOIL UP: SIERRA LEONE AND THE RURAL UNIVERSITY IN THE WAKE OF EMPIRE. Zachary Daniel Poppel, University of Illinois, 2014, pp. 2f.
2. ^ Honorary Graduates - F to R. University of Hull. ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 20, 2017. 
3. ↑ Raph Uwich: Africa Who's Who 1991. Africa Journal Limited, London 1991, p. 1086.
4. ↑ Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government. Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Bonn 1984, p. 644
5. ↑ In Sierra Leone, 40 National Honors, 17 Presidential Medals and 10 Honor Medals. Awareness Times, April 25, 2013. ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.